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  • Momo@icelandphotos.co.uk
    Jun 4, 2026, 9:00 AM

    Phenomenal

    You might have hear of wind shear, but have you ever seen it?

    Late October, the maximum sustained wind speed was 75.9 kph (47.2 mph), a Beaufort scale force 9 - a "strong gale."
    We were hurrying back to our hotel, breaking no speed limits but not hanging about.

    I spotted this strange cloud formation and took a few shots. It wasn't until I had chance to look at them properly that I realised what I had.

    Rangárþing eystra, southern Iceland.

    #WeatherPhotography #Iceland #Photography

    A colour photo of a landscape under heavy overcast. Thick grey clouds are swirling overhead, a clearer space below them. In the distance is a small mountain and the foreground is brown vegetation and black gravel. In the gap between the cloudbank and the ground surface is an odd, almost right-angled stream of cloud, probably rainfall caught in the wind and skewed by it. At the top it's falling towards the left, then makes a sharp dogleg turn towards the right. It's quite surreal.
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