bobbutts
(Weather Hobbyist)
Tue Jun 27 2006 08:18 PM
Re: Can someone tell me what I was looking at? (warning large pic)

I reduced and zipped up those files
http://bobbutts.mine.nu/images/reduced.zip
You can find the individual ones named reduced_* in http://bobbutts.mine.nu/images/

From digging around it appears that the feature is a rotating wall cloud.. Although much less impressive than most of the ones I saw on the net. Also according to what I read Mesocyclones are based on radar presentation, not ground observations, so doubtful that's the term I want.



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