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  • Location: SE London
  • Location: SE London
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sorry but i cant help there Kelly, the picture is stunning though, there seems to be a mixture of clouds forming :) must admit i have never seen a formation like that before

Guest Shetland Coastie
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Looks to me like some stratocumulus with a burst of rain in the middle of it but im no expert!

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  • Location: Caterham-on-the-hill, Surrey, 190m asl (home), Heathrow (work)
  • Location: Caterham-on-the-hill, Surrey, 190m asl (home), Heathrow (work)
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Looks like a low-topped cumulonimbus to me.

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  • Location: SE London
  • Location: SE London
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so is that the cloud going all the way down to the sea surface. or is it a curtain of rain below the cloud?

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  • Location: Caterham-on-the-hill, Surrey, 190m asl (home), Heathrow (work)
  • Location: Caterham-on-the-hill, Surrey, 190m asl (home), Heathrow (work)
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Rain/hail curtain from cloud base to the surface I think Mick :)

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  • Location: Leigh On Sea - Essex & Tornado Alley
  • Location: Leigh On Sea - Essex & Tornado Alley
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Yep

I agree with Nick. A very small Cb, think you will find the main part of the Cb is behind the Anvil which is glaciating at the top. The front and back of the cell is Rain free with the precip core where it should be for a Coastal Shower (Right In the Middle), also looks to be decaying to me and in its last throws of Life, these Cells usually pulse up and down as they move along the Coast.

Paul S

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Looks like a cumulonnimbus to me or a swelling cumulus. The cumulonimbus produces localized heavy showers. Light showers sometimes fall from widespread continous rain. Sometimes very light drizzle or mist sometimes falls out of low but thick stratus clouds. The culumulonimbus can provide threatical sky shows. As the growing cloud pushes above the freezing level, the top makes a striated appreance due to the presence of ice crystals. Hail stones from the bottom of the base may fall. Also it displays lighting and tornado funnels may drop from the base.

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  • Location: Sunderland
  • Weather Preferences: Hot Summer, Snowy winter and thunderstorms all year round!
  • Location: Sunderland
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yep, looks like a regular dissipating Cb with anvil....Looks like an optical illusion has been created giving the effect that its raining over the sea, but on closer inspection, the rain looks to be several miles inland

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  • Location: SE London
  • Location: SE London
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Rain/hail curtain from cloud base to the surface I think Mick :)
cheers mate :)

bit difficult to distinguish, stunning effect though

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  • Location: Leigh On Sea - Essex & Tornado Alley
  • Location: Leigh On Sea - Essex & Tornado Alley
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Looks like a cumulonnimbus to me or a swelling cumulus. The cumulonimbus produces localized heavy showers. Light showers sometimes fall from widespread continous rain. Sometimes very light drizzle or mist sometimes falls out of low but thick stratus clouds. The culumulonimbus can provide threatical sky shows. As the growing cloud pushes above the freezing level, the top makes a striated appreance due to the presence of ice crystals. Hail stones from the bottom of the base may fall. Also it displays lighting and tornado funnels may drop from the base.

:) Has that been copied off the Net :)

The bolded bit gave it away

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  • Location: Caterham-on-the-hill, Surrey, 190m asl (home), Heathrow (work)
  • Location: Caterham-on-the-hill, Surrey, 190m asl (home), Heathrow (work)
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The glaciated anvil is tilted well forward of the base by the looks of it - due to strong horizontal speed shear or strong winds aloft. Definately in its mature stages that cell though and the anvil will soon be 'orphaned' of it base which will tend to rain out/evaporate while the glaciated top remains.

Posted
  • Location: Isle of wight
  • Location: Isle of wight
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Thanks guys, I now know what the put on the write up for it when its put in the gallery...

:)

Posted
  • Location: Blackdown Hills - Devon
  • Location: Blackdown Hills - Devon
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Looks like a low-topped cumulonimbus to me.

Absolutelly, especially if taken when it was decaying (perhaps in the late afternoon or evening?).

dl

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  • Location: just south of Doncaster, Sth Yorks
  • Location: just south of Doncaster, Sth Yorks
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yes it a Cb (Cumulonimbus), rather typical of them in the winter period, fairly low tops as opposed to the heights they reach in summer; still fairly active as you can see the ppn falling from the base, probably just about reaching its post mature stage. The cloud spreading out is Sc(Stratocumulus)

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