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Tag: cloud

Kelvin-Helmholtz Clouds

Posted on December 14, 2025 by skip

by Skip Via
skip@westvalleynaturalists.org

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If you were in the West Valley area during the middle of the afternoon of December 9, 2025 and happened to be looking through The Notch toward GNP , you may have seen a rare and typically brief atmospheric phenomenon–a Kelvin-Helmholtz cloud system forming.

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