© Grahame King
Gibraltar
Latitude: 36° 9' 9'' N
Longitude: 5° 20' 54'' W
11 July 2007 1900 (Local Time)
Camera direction: towards SE
Image P/S code: P.19.1
Image I.D.: 5626
CL = 6, CM = /, CH = 1
“Levanter cloud” is the specific name given to a banner cloud that forms in moist, stable easterly winds over the Rock of Gibraltar, Gibraltar.
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This picture shows a detached pennant, or banner cloud, formed in gale-force winds at the top of the Rock of Gibraltar, Gibraltar. The specific name of the banner cloud that forms in stable easterly winds over the Rock of Gibraltar is the “Levanter cloud”.
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“Levanter cloud” is the specific name given to the banner cloud that forms in moist, stable easterly winds over the Rock of Gibraltar, Gibraltar. In this particular instance, the wind was 18 kt (9.3 m/s)at a height of 10 m over Gibraltar Airport. At the top of the Rock it would have been stronger.
In the photo, a stationary wave cloud has formed immediately over and downwind from the peak; this is the banner cloud. However, on the right of the picture, further downwind to the west, there is also sufficient moisture and heating for the convective development of Cumulus. With the Cumulus base at the same level as the Stratocumulus lenticularis (banner cloud), the coding is CL = 2.
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