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This photo of a rolling arcus cloud was taken on a ship off the coast of Brazil. While it looks menacing enough to fuel another 2012 end-of-the-world conspiracy, it’s also downright breathtaking.
These types of clouds are often seen preceding thunderstorms, as the storm’s cold downdraft pushes low-hanging warm air in front of it upwards, where it condenses and winds essentially roll into a long tube.
But you don’t always need to run for cover when one makes an appearance, since sea breezes have also been known to generate roll clouds, and in the fall they’re apparently a common site off the coast of Queensland, Australia. [Nasa EPOD via LiveScience]
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This is Gizmodo UK, right? “and in the fall they’re apparently a common site off the coast of Queensland, Australia.”.
I for one do find the article interesting despite the location of the cloud. However for info many articles we see here on Gizmodo uk will be from Gizmodo sister sites, and like wise Giz UK articles will appear else where also.. You can also tell which site the article comes from by the name held against it.
Try visiting the others from the link at the bottom of the page. I do think UK Giz is pretty good though in comparison to others.
It was the “fall” bit that annoyed me. I love reading about things going around the world. There’s no point of Gizmodo UK if articles are just going to cross over like this. It’s hard a local experience, which is the point of the site.
A little nitpicky aren’t we?
Looks like something from Donnie Darko…