The "Levante" cloud over Gibraltar!It's like a white wing

Gibraltar Levant Cloud shot on August 24, 2022

The Gibraltar Peninsula is about 6.5 square kilometers, about 4.6 kilometers north -south, about 1.2 kilometers width, and about 12 kilometers long. Located from the East Northern River to the east end of the Mediterranean to the Atlantic Stenples, it is a very strategic value of the throat. In the historical battle of the 18th century, it was cut to the United Kingdom from the Spanish territory and continued to this day.

Most of the Gibraltar terrain is steep liman, including 426 meters high in straight Gibrallas. This boulder mountain that extends to Albraan Sea is combined with LEVANT WIND, which prevails in the local summer to produce a unique Levant Cloud, which constitutes a beautiful weather. landscape. The so -called "Levante Wind" refers to the east wind blowing in western Mediterranean and southern France.

The so -called Levante style is actually controlled by the southern part of the southern part of the high -gas belt between the Atlantic to Western Europe. Dongliu moves and gather, this weather is prevalent in June to October each year. In some cases, such as a single high pressure appearing near the Bali Ali Islands, or approaching the Gibraltar Strait from the Atlantic Ocean, it will also appear in the strait area to form a Laandan style.

The weather situation map formed by the Laandt wind

The Landie Cloud is a kind of terrain cloud formed by the appropriate Lavitfeng and the towering rocks of Zhiqi Gibraltar, and it has also become "banner-cloud". The so -called suitable Levante wind needs to meet the conditions of wind direction and wind speed.

The wind speed is too slow, not enough to make the warm and humid air of the Mediterranean rising quickly when the terrain of the raised rock, and form a strong vortex, which produces enough water vapor cooling and condensed conditions to form a cloud body; if the wind speed is too large, the cloud may cause the cloud The body is broken from the mountain, which is difficult to constitute a spectacular flag.

The influence of the wind direction is to avoid the dry air that is involved in North Africa, that is, the southeast wind is not conducive to the formation of the Laandte Cloud. It is best to be east or northeast wind. The warm and humid air over the Mediterranean is obviously the most ideal condition.

On August 24th, the British Meteorological Administration recorded a spectacular video generated by Levante Cloud near Gibraltar Airport. The clear flag -shaped cloud system around the flow of rocks constitutes an amazing picture and spread spread on the Internet.

Gibralta Leduwart Cloud photographed closely in 2010

In 2010, someone had taken the scenery of the Gibralta flag through the mountains. On the towering giant rocks, the cloud system hung on the rock wall like a waterfall, forming a strange landscape scroll. Such flag clouds also occur in areas with similar geographical and meteorological conditions. For example, the famous Mount Everest Mall, it is also a common natural landscape in the local area.

Mount Everest

Produced by China Meteorological News

Author: Xu Xiaofeng

Edit: Wang Ruogia

Review: Duan Haoshu

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