Cloud Cache Series - Condensation Funnel Traditional Cache
Team_Schnauzer: Archiving
Cloud Cache Series - Condensation Funnel
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Quick P&G out on the prairie. Watch for muggles at this location. That probably won't be an issue but just beware in case there is someone at the building nearby.
This is part of our cloud cache series.
Condensation funnel clouds (or cold-air funnels) are usually short-lived and generally much weaker than the vortices produced by supercells. Although cold-air funnels rarely make ground contact, they may touch down briefly and become weak tornadoes or waterspouts.
A shear funnel extending from a generic cumulus cloud. Observed in northern Texas by a member of the VORTEX project. Unlike the related phenomenon associated with severe thunderstorms, cold-air funnels are generally associated with partly cloudy skies in the wake of cold fronts, where atmospheric instability and moisture is sufficient to support towering cumulus clouds but not precipitation. The mixing of cooler air in the lower troposphere with air flowing in a different direction in the middle troposphere causes the rotation on a horizontal axis, which, when deflected vertically by atmospheric conditions, can become a funnel cloud.
They are a common sight along the Pacific Coast of the United States, particularly in the spring or autumn.
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