Von Karman Vortices

Yearofthe1 · 07-06-2010, 01:23 PM

I've never heard of these before, but I thought some of you might enjoy this amazing weather phenomenon. For a scale reference, that little green dot in the middle-upper left is an island. The land mass to the right is Mexico.

The attached pic is from the NOAA high res satellite imagery site. Go there for the high-def versions of these pics. Here's the link:

http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/MediaDetail...&MediaTypeID=1

PsychoSlug · 07-06-2010, 02:06 PM

Wow, pretty cool. Thanks for sharing. I wonder what it looked like from below.

GreenPlease · 07-06-2010, 03:19 PM

Very cool

07-06-2010, 01:23 PM	#1
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PsychoSlug Lieutenant 36 Rep 564 Posts Drives: E90 Join Date: May 2009 Location: Nowhere iTrader: (0)	Wow, pretty cool. Thanks for sharing. I wonder what it looked like from below.
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