APOD 2.6

This picture, "A Roll Cloud Over Uruguay" is incredibly interesting to me for one specific reason. This is that cylindrical shaped clouds like this, are very rare and unique to see in the sky. The conditions that are required to create such a phenomenon are quite rare, and those who have the privilege to witness their occurrence should count themselves lucky. While browsing this article I learned several things which I found particularly interesting. First and foremost is that roll clouds are very much like Morning Glory which are famous for their appearance over Australia, in that they are detached from their parent cumulonimbus formation. Also I learned that although these clouds do look a lot like stormy clouds, they are in no way related with the formation of tornadoes.