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Counter-Rotating Wall Clouds

2023-07-23 By Roger Edwards

Counter-Rotating Wall Clouds

After spending a long, late lunchtime in Dallas waiting for signs the cap would break, it did in spades, not far south of town.  By the time we managed to get through a growing area of storms and weave our way to the then-dominant cell, it sported a remarkable counter-rotating pair of wall clouds.  The one on the left rotated anticyclonically (counterclockwise), with the tail cloud on the near side moving from right to left.  The darker, slightly more distant wall cloud at right rotated cyclonically, but not much (if any) stronger than the other.  However, as often happens, the cyclonic member came to dominate the process, after moving behind the nearer one.  dense rain soon wrapped around the mesocyclone, and the supercell merged with other activity nearby, leading to a strangely lit, high-precipitation storm.

3 NE Emhouse TX (10 Jun 23) Looking NW
32.1873, -96.5371

Filed Under: Wall Cloud Wall Tagged With: clouds, convection, Emhouse, landscapes, storms, supercells, Texas, thunderstorms, wall clouds, weather

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Welcome to SkyPix, an online photo book of clouds, weather and water by Roger Edwards. As in a printed coffee-table book, every image has its own page with a unique story. After all, meaningful photography is much more than just picture-taking; it is visually rendering a moment in place and time from a perspective like none other. As a scientist and an artist, I hope my deep passion for the power and splendor of our skies and waters shines through in these pages. If you are a cloud and weather aficionado, outdoor enthusiast, outdoor or nature photographer, art lover, or anyone who craves learning, enjoy...

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