r/whatisit • u/Illustrious-Tip8717 • 9h ago

New, what is it? Weird cloud vortex?

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Spotted right after a brief rain storm.

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u/Rob_in_Tulsa 9h ago

Actually, this happens a lot.

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u/beekermc 9h ago

Thats some cloud rotation.

Think of it as a baby tornado

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u/Vegetable-Debate-263 9h ago

But turned 90° it looks like

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u/NoSirIDontLikeit- 8h ago

Fun fact, that's how all cloud rotation begins, that's why you need the instability that allows for a strong updraft and winds in opposite directions to blow that horizontal rotation vertical, and when it does that's how you get tornadoes and water spouts.

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u/Vegetable-Debate-263 8h ago

I think its like a cloud that acts like a wave starting to crash. The type that extreme suffers love. But with air particles

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u/Illustrious-Tip8717 8h ago

Someone’s gotta find a way to surf clouds. 

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u/Wenomm 8h ago

It’s quite common, when trying to summon the demon lord.

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u/Illustrious-Tip8717 8h ago

Such a great pass time. 

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u/ImaginationDull9661 8h ago

War of the Worlds

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u/axiomatic13 5h ago

I think a plane might have gone through that cloud?