Weather watchers were treated to a unique display on Friday evening as rare cloud formations filled Vancouver skies. The weather phenomenon cast sheets of grey-tinged cloud, knitted together to ...
Named after physicists Lord Kelvin and Hermann von Helmholtz, these fairly rare clouds can be hard to spot as they can only form on very windy days with exceptional levels of vertical shear.
Essentially, it’s the same process that results in waves forming over open bodies of water under high winds—just in the sky! Named after physicists Lord Kelvin and Hermann von Helmholtz, these fairly ...