roll cloud
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The eerie phenomenon was a “roll cloud” that sometimes appears after a thunderstorm.
From Fox News
BBC weather expert Paul Hudson said the natural phenomenon was technically known as a roll cloud and was quite rare.
From BBC
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From New York Times
New images of a weird weather phenomenon known as a roll cloud have surfaced from Richland, Miss. The images, taken on a camera phone by Mississippi resident Daniel Blake Fitzhugh, reveal a seemingly endless roll cloud, or arcus cloud, a low cloud formation that forms over the sea or at the edges of thunderstorms.
From Scientific American
Fitzhugh sent in an image and video of the cloud to LiveScience after seeing an earlier report of a roll cloud off the coast of Brazil.
From Scientific American
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