On Mar 20, 9:33 am, "Kloudy via AviationKB.com" u33403@uwe wrote:
Darryl Ramm wrote:
Very uniform Cloud Street formations seen over the Sea of Okhotsk last
summer:
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Chris

Morning glory.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_glory_cloud

Maybe some Aussie pilots want to talk about flying along them.

Darryl

Maybe undular bore phenom.

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2...re.htm?list104...

pretty cool looking in any case

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Morning glory is a particular (esp. Australian) name for undular bore.
Morning glory usually refers to the cloud part. BTW technical
discussion here http://www.ge-at.iastate.edu/chen/printversion-58.pdf
There will be an exam later.

(Yes Jim I want to see photos of your Nimbus-3 surfing the those
clouds in Australia. Fly in the morning, spend the afternoon in the
pub :-)).


Darryl