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Evolution Of A Gust front - August 2nd 08

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« on: August 07, 2008, 09:23:10 pm »

Here's a few images taken on August 2nd from the Maghera countryside showing a cool gust front forming. It gathered together over the Sperrins and very slowly swept across the country to the east and directly over me. As it done so it developed amazing curvature on it's southern side. The precip core was very powerful producing heavy rainfall for 20 min's as the temp dropped like a stone and outflow winds hit. Here's a x2 speed time lapse video...





















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« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2009, 12:18:00 pm »

Hi Rose, yes that's correct, very slow and from W to E.
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