Name this weird cloud formation (and tell me how it will kill me)

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At 16:10. Does not look like a thunderstorm formation. Some sort of frontal system? Sure seems like a massive updraft, but not cumulus updraft formation. Could you ride the front of that wave up and over? (Not that I think that is a smart thing).
 
Une haboob?
edit I take it back, now I see that it does not reach the ground and indeed has a roll about its horizontal axis.
How will it kill you? It won't because you are cautious and observant.
 
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Morgan got it. The turbulence/updraft/downdraft/windshear might kill you.
 
Probably in the Gulf of Carpentaria
 
How about this one?
 

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Morgan3820 said:
Long lenticular?
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Like I said not likely... Unless there's a cliff shoreside... Maybe.


Lenticular clouds form over mountain tops.

I suppose, if you had a shear cliff at waters edge, and conditions were just right, you could have a series of lenticular clouds, one next to the other....?

But not likely.
 
CharlieD3 said:
Like I said not likely... Unless there's a cliff shoreside... Maybe.


Lenticular clouds form over mountain tops.

I suppose, if you had a shear cliff at waters edge, and conditions were just right, you could have a series of lenticular clouds, one next to the other....?

But not likely.
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I was at the beach in Florida, so no hills or anything that could cause a lenticular cloud to develop.
 
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