So anyone else here seen “The Mist”? All I could think of when I saw this…
This is so cool can someone explain the scientific phenomena behind this?
Just checked, this is a shelf cloud, a type of arcus cloud that usually signals the coming of severe weather. This is actually fairly normal behavior for shelf clouds, I think it’s just that the video is really close to the squall so it looks extremely ominous.
Here are a few more examples of shelf clouds.
AKA gust front. Or outflow boundary. The temperature will drop significantly when a really good one passes. Definitely a favorite thunderstorm feature.
Not going to lie, if I saw this I’d assume apocalypse and start texting my goodbyes,
