Extraordinary photographs of a enormous shelf cloud hitting the coast of fresh South Wales, Australia. The meteorological event – technically a type of arcus cloud – is a wedge of cloud formed at the leading edge of a thunderstorm where the downdraft and an updraft of the storm intersect. The shelf cloud seen here – dubbed by Twitter a ‘cloud tsunami’ – measured several kilometres in length and swept across the city throughout the afternoon and early eveningContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com