Cape Tyron Vortex Black and White
by Edward Fielding
Title
Cape Tyron Vortex Black and White
Artist
Edward Fielding
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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Note: the watermark in the lower right does not appear in the final print.
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A powerful thunderstorm bears down on the Cape Tryon Lighthouse, Prince Edward Island Canada. Black and white fine art photography by Edward M. Fielding - www.edwardfielding.com
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A wall cloud (or pedestal cloud) is a large, localized, persistent, and often abrupt lowering of cloud that develops beneath the surrounding base of a cumulonimbus cloud and from which sometimes forms tornadoes. It is typically beneath the rain-free base (RFB) portion of a thunderstorm, and indicates the area of the strongest updraft within a storm. Rotating wall clouds are an indication of a mesocyclone in a thunderstorm; most strong tornadoes form from these. Many wall clouds do rotate, however some do not.
Many storms contain shelf clouds, which are often mistaken for wall clouds, since an approaching shelf cloud appears to form a wall made of cloud and may contain turbulent motions.Wall clouds are inflow clouds and tend to slope inward, or toward the precipitation area of a storm. Shelf clouds, on the other hand, are outflow clouds that jut outward from the storm, often as gust fronts. Also, shelf clouds tend to move outward away from the precipitation area of a storm.
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