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This wave cloud appeared for a few minutes when I was out today. I have seen high level versions of these but this was sea fret/low cloud at the cliffs. The attached map shows direction of the view as an orange arrow and the wind direction with a blue arrow. The cliffs are around 400ft at this location. Has anyone seen anything like this before.

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Paul

Wow, a pretty rare beast that, good catch 🙂

It's Kelvin Helmholtz clouds, caused by instability in the atmosphere, with changing wind speeds at different heights. 

 

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6554b6be8c0d829a8bf63ae0c82cf121_link.pn Kelvin-Helmholtz cloud

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An extremely rare phenomenon, where a cloud produces a billowing wave pattern. They occur when there is a strong vertical shear between two air streams, causing...

 

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