Fluctus is a cloud formed by a particular wind pattern known as wind shear. With its breaking-wave curls, it is the most iconic of all the wave clouds, and it features as Cloud of the Month for April…
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Venetia Brown
Kelvin-Helmholtz waves over LaGuardia in Northern Spain.
Phil Flanagan
Kelvin-Helmholtz waves over Naseby, central Otago, New Zealand.
Helen Ward
Kelvin-Helmholtz waves over Barrow-in-Furness, England.
Patrick Dennis
Kelvin-Helmholtz waves over Brighton, Colorado, US.
Sean Prokopiw
Distant Kelvin-Helmholtz waves over Ainstable, Cumbria, England.
Mary Rocks
Kelvin-Helmholtz waves over Mesa, Arizona, US.
Ninke Reusens
Fluctus (Kelvin-Helmholtz) waves over Vilvoorde, Brussels, Belgium.
Sarah Rambacher
Kelvin-Helmholtz (fluctus), waves over Westford, Massachusetts, US.
Distant Kelvin-Helmholtz waves viewed from Saltburn cliff top, UK.
Distant Kelvin-Helmholtz waves viewed from Saltburn cliff top, UK.
Kelvin-Helmholtz waves over the Cascade mountains, Washington, US.
Kelvin-Helmholtz waves over the Cascade mountains, Washington, US.
Kelvin Helmholtz waves breaking over Warriewood Beach, Sydney, Australia.
Kelvin Helmholtz waves breaking over Warriewood Beach, Sydney, Australia.
Kelvin-Helmholtz waves over northeastern Indiana, US.
Kelvin-Helmholtz waves over northeastern Indiana, US.
Kelvin-Helmholtz waves above the beach at HigashiIzu, Izu peninsula, Japan/Honshu,
Kelvin-Helmholtz waves above the beach at HigashiIzu, Izu peninsula, Japan/Honshu,
August 2020
It’s rare, it’s fleeting, it’s a fluctus cloud…
Kelvin-Helmholtz waves over Rocky Point, North Carolina, US.
Kelvin-Helmholtz waves over Rocky Point, North Carolina, US.
Kelvin–Helmholtz waves over Arkansas, US.
Kelvin–Helmholtz waves over Arkansas, US.
The last breaking waves of a Kelvin-Helmholtz formation at sunset over Matamata, Waikato, North Island, New Zealand.
The last breaking waves of a Kelvin-Helmholtz formation at sunset over Matamata, Waikato, North Island, New Zealand.
The Asperitas Cloud and World Meteorological Day, 2017
The cloud that we identified ten years ago is being accepted by the World Meteorological Organisation this week…
Marie Dent
A Kelvin-Helmholtz formation making its own waves over Henley Royal Regatta.
Frank Le Blancq
A Sunset with Kelvin-Helmholtz waves over Portelet, Jersey.
That’s Not Why We Think You’re Crazy, Stacey…
Clouds that look like a series of breaking waves are known as ‘Kelvin-Helmholtz’ formations. They can appear at the low, middle and high cloud levels. This video, filmed from Birmingham, Alabama, US, shows a particularly low example of Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds. So dramatic were the waves that they were featured in the local news, described by […]
From Karen Rosell
Pannus lurk, ominous on the horizon,
Somewhere in the haze…
Carol Drew
A Kelvin-Helmholtz formation over the outback town of Marree, South Australia.
Kelvin Helmholtz Clouds Hit the Headlines
Frequent visitors to the society Cloud Gallery will be familiar with the beautiful and dramatic ‘Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds’, which look like a series of breaking waves and often appear in a line of beautiful vortices. Normally, these formations are spotted amongst mid-level or high clouds, and so are only noticed by cloudspotters who make a point […]
Waves from the Canary Island of Lanzarote.
Waves from the Canary Island of Lanzarote.
Cloud-bottom Kelvin Helmholtz waves, viewed from San Joaquin Ridge, California. U.S.
Cloud-bottom Kelvin Helmholtz waves, viewed from San Joaquin Ridge, California. U.S.
Kelvin-Helmholtz waves, Dean Court, Oxford. U.K.
Kelvin-Helmholtz waves, Dean Court, Oxford. U.K.
Kelvin-Helmholtz waves, taken in Seattle, Washington, U.S., facing west towards the Olympic Mountain range.
Kelvin-Helmholtz waves, taken in Seattle, Washington, U.S., facing west towards the Olympic Mountain range.
Spotted over the Pacific Ocean, near Santa Cruz, California. U.S.
Spotted over the Pacific Ocean, near Santa Cruz, California. U.S.
Waves over Derby. U.K.
Waves over Derby. U.K.
From Julie Elizabeth Smalley.
Middlewich, Cheshire. U.K. The Clouds’ Reply to William Wordsworth’s “Daffodils” “Lonely as a cloud”? Exception! Mr Wordsworth, sir, we must as clouds correct your misconception to “content as a cumulus”. Praise not earthfast daffodils but Hosts of Silv’ry Celestials. Golden blooms stretch’d along a bay might present an awesome sight. Yet all ten thousand, come […]
Early morning Kelvin Helmholtz waves at Glastonbury, Somerset, U.K.
Early morning Kelvin Helmholtz waves at Glastonbury, Somerset, U.K.
Low lying Stratus with notions far higher than its present station in life, thinks its a Cirrus Kelvin-Helmholtz. Photographed rolling in waves over the Santa Cruz mountains near the city ofMountain View, California.
Low lying Stratus with notions far higher than its present station in life, thinks its a Cirrus Kelvin-Helmholtz. Photographed rolling in waves over the Santa Cruz mountains near the city of Mountain View, California.
Waves over Harbury Warwickshire. UK.
Waves over Harbury Warwickshire. UK.
Some Kelvin-Helmholtz waves picked out during a sunset over the Tanqua Karoo, South Africa
Some Kelvin-Helmholtz waves picked out during a sunset over the Tanqua Karoo, South Africa
August 2006
‘Surf’s Up’ at 24,000ft over Georgia, US. The classic 1964 surfing documentary, The Endless Summer, followed the adventures of three surfers traveling from Malibu to Ghana, via Nigeria, Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, and Hawaii in search of the perfect wave. Cloudspotters can experience their own perfect wave too, without ever having to leave home – […]
