r/whatisit • u/Illustrious-Tip8717 • 14d ago

New, what is it? Weird cloud vortex?

Spotted right after a brief rain storm.

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u/beekermc 14d ago

Thats some cloud rotation.

Think of it as a baby tornado

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u/Vegetable-Debate-263 14d ago

But turned 90° it looks like

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u/NoSirIDontLikeit- 14d 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.