Les Hemmings wrote:
Can anyone tell me the name of the sort of cloud we had here in Kent
recently. Looks a bit like an anvil thunderhead, very white flat top, with
what looks like a "waterfall" falling out of the bottom. Inverted triangle
in overall shape, often the wind sheers the falling ice crystals to one side
making a few of these things look almost artificial or even "angelic" Made
me think of the alien in The Abyss.

Any ideas? trying to describe it to someone and a picture would really
help. Been looking through cloud galleries all morning..

Les


Orphan Anvil with virga trails, cirrus s****atus. Cb anvils usually take
longer to evaporate / sublimate into the clear air than the rest of the
cloud as they're made of ice.

http://llandru.servehttp.com/cpg135/...album=1&pos=23

There's stacks more in the photo gallery, select weather and cloud
photographs from uksevereweather.org.uk ...

les
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