Cloud trains

[sarabande]

a classic radar scan (current 01 July 16.30 BST) of how cloud trains form and develop.

http://www.meteox.com/h.aspx?r=&jaar=-3&soort=loop1uur

Look at Penzance, St David's, and W France; warm wet Atlantic air hits the land, rises, forms clouds which, by orographic lifting, cause thermodynamic generation of more clouds, which....


I know; once a geography teacher, always...

 

[savageseadog]

The Western Alps aren't looking too clever either.

 

[sarabande]

I'm really excited by this radar history. Anyone know how to save the sequence please ?