Tuesday 14 February 2023

Ribbed stratus cloud

The sky at Watchtree on Sunday was interesting. It is stratus but ribbed. The repeating pattern is reminiscent of a stationary wave, like the one  you get if you hold a knife blade under a laminar flow from a tap. Now I have seen lenticular clouds in this very gap between the mountains and they are caused by stationary wave patterns being set up. Perhaps this is the same.