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Storm-Scale Recycling

2025-01-08 By Roger Edwards

Storm-Scale Recycling

High-based and entirely nontornadic through its life cycle, a northeastern Colorado supercell nonetheless made things interesting a few times as it cycled through relatively vigorous, low-level mesocyclone phases, with low wall clouds.  Rotation was slow, with much faster upward motion in each case.  This was the nearest to ground of the wall clouds, when including a pronounced boot of condensation arising from the forward-flank core at right, then curving up and back downshear into the higher, ambient cloud base.  With this shape, connected visually to the rain foot at right, the cloud form acts as a tracer for the path of air from downdraft back to updraft.  The recycled air from the core, cool and moist, condensed at a very low elevation relative to both ground and surrounding cloud material under the same mesocyclone.  From a distance, features similar to this have fooled spotters and chasers into thinking, at least briefly, that they were tornadoes or funnel clouds.

9 SW Fleming CO ( 1 Jun 24) Looking NW
40.5841, -102.9256

Filed Under: Wall Cloud Wall Tagged With: clouds, Colorado, convection, Fleming, fractocumulus, Great Plains, landscapes, outflow, scud, storms, supercells, thunderstorms, wall clouds, weather, wind farm

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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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