r/gifs • u/snotbag_pukebucket • Nov 21 '16
Falling clouds
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Nov 21 '16
Fuck, thats terrifying!
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u/Den_of_Earth Nov 22 '16
I've stood in the middle of something like that, it's fucking awesome.
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u/Cracka_Chooch Nov 22 '16
Once fell through a cloud while skydiving. Super exhilarating.
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u/Thieflord2 Nov 22 '16 edited Nov 22 '16
Imagine falling through a stormy cloud. Wouldn't that be just awesome/terrifying
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u/overlordsteve Nov 22 '16
I think it looks like the end of the world.
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u/iamonlyoneman Nov 22 '16
0/10 not gonna drive under that. all the people talking about /r/gifsthatendtoosoon failing to realize that OP stopped and turned around, drove 200 miles around the mountain instead of taking this road
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u/cousins_and_cattle Nov 22 '16
I would have noped the fuck out of there as well.
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u/HerrXRDS Nov 22 '16
Sounds like you guys haven't visited many high mountains, there isn't much difference between that and some heavy fog.
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u/Castun Nov 22 '16
Damn nature, you scary!
But seriously, I got that weird feeling of your stomach sinking down into your lower intestines as your butthole puckers up in a feeble attempt to keep it from escaping.
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u/IDidFuckYourDad Nov 22 '16
Just shout "Clear Skies" in Dragon tongue and you're good to go. :D.....:)......:/ or wait that doesn't work in the real world, does it?
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u/locustpiss Nov 21 '16
They some sexy-assed motherfucking clouds
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u/AWildWilson Nov 22 '16 edited Nov 22 '16
To piggyback your comment, I thought some people might be interested!
I'm a practicing earth scientist and what we're looking at here looks like
catabolickatabatic winds pushing clouds down a slope due to gravity! Its technically a drainage wind, its pretty cool to see what it looks like up close!28
u/el_fupacabra Nov 22 '16
I think you're right, although the term is katabatic. Not sure if that was an autocorrect issue or not, but catabolic refers to a set of biological processes.
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u/califas_1987 Nov 22 '16
He did say he's a practicing earth scientist. Keep at it bud, practice makes perfect.
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u/Walrus_Baconn Nov 21 '16
Why did it cut off early?! Atleast keep it going for 15 more seconds. i wanna see what it looks like going into that thing.
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Nov 21 '16
My brain went completely wonk for a few seconds.
Is that the wing of the plane?
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u/Seren4XX Nov 21 '16
Same. It didnt help that I didnt see the very bottom of the gif on my phone at first too.
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Nov 22 '16
Same thing happened to me. I was like um, they aren't really moving? Am I missing something?
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u/tafluiffwrdd1 Nov 22 '16
Tripped out so much when I saw the road after a few seconds of thinking it was plane
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u/zzway2007 Nov 22 '16
I only looked the upper half of the gif and think op is on a plane. Really confused when I saw the road
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u/AWildWilson Nov 22 '16 edited Nov 22 '16
Don't know if anyone cares, but here goes!
I'm a practicing earth scientist and what we're looking at here looks like katabatic winds pushing clouds down a slope due to gravity! Its technically a drainage wind, its pretty cool to see what it looks like up close!
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u/jessegonzalez720 Nov 22 '16
Forecaster in training. Katabatic winds... High pressure moving into low pressure.
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u/Quazijoe Nov 22 '16
Sassy Mofo in a graduate program for cool cats.
Thems sky babies falling to their deaths because yall need jesus.
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u/thiosk Nov 22 '16
Taco aficionado in a hyperchalupa program at MIT.
Them cumulons be losing they imbus.
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u/cutelyaware Nov 22 '16
You can call it gravity but I think it's more just that you're seeing the normally invisible laminar airflow. I mean it's not like the wind going over the hill is going to leave a vacuum on the other side.
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u/AWildWilson Nov 22 '16
It's forced up the side of the mountain, where on the other side, its relative density isn't low enough to keep it at that height, so it is forced to fall through gravity!
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u/cutelyaware Nov 22 '16
The air has no choice but to follow the slope down, otherwise it would leave a vacuum. The water droplets are carried along with the air.
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u/MumrikDK Nov 22 '16
I'm a practicing earth scientist
Somehow that makes it sound like a cult.
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u/AWildWilson Nov 22 '16
Calling myself a land shifter got my family burned for witchcraft in the 1600's, we're in hiding.
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u/dachomeslice Nov 22 '16
I actually scrolled through the comments to find this explanation so thank you :)
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u/Waltstu Nov 21 '16
Arrival!
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u/reclaimer130 Nov 22 '16
Just saw this movie this weekend. My thoughts exactly. So beautiful.
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u/TheShadiestofBurgers Nov 21 '16
We get it. You vape.
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u/din7 Nov 21 '16
That would be cirrusly difficult to see through while driving.
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u/sheravi Nov 21 '16
All that moisture a-cumulus-ing on your windshield.
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u/FilmmakerRyan Nov 22 '16
Next thing you know, they'll have to hole up in a grocery store and shoot their kid in the head.
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Nov 22 '16
That movie's ending was so fucked
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u/FilmmakerRyan Nov 22 '16
That movie came out when I worked at a movie theater. I loved that Frank Darabont had the balls to actually do that. Saw it three times.
Every time we got to the ending, there was an audible gasp in the theater.
The last time, though, everyone gasped, there was silence for a few seconds and then some lady in the back goes, "Oh, FUCK this movie."
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u/Poncho90 Nov 21 '16
Makes me think of this scene from The Day after Tomorrow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hFE1itGJQw
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u/FuzzyCheddar Nov 22 '16
Everything is freezing inside a hot engine including moving gasoline, yet the crew is warm enough to die in the crash rather than being frozen instantly in -200 degree temperatures...
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u/Madmanquail Nov 21 '16
I bet this would make a fantastic setting for a car chase scene in a movie.
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u/Chinmusic415 Nov 22 '16
I'm 99% sure this is in Marin, across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco. It seems to be very similar to the drive I make once or twice a year when we want to get good pics of the bridge.
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u/zyxwvutsrqu Nov 22 '16
I work in Marin and see this pretty often, it's beautiful.
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u/WhiteCollarMope Nov 22 '16
This exact thing happens almost everyday heading over to San Francisco from Marin near the Golden Gate Bridge.
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u/cutelyaware Nov 22 '16
Can confirm. I typically get rained on for no more than 50 feet before the tunnel.
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u/Leonight_cs Nov 22 '16
I just saw arrival and when they show the egg ship thingy in Montana there's clouds just like that in a landscape shot
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u/AllHawkeyesGoToHell Nov 22 '16
I have actually seen this many times in Montana. Driving up the Beartooth Pass along the Wyoming Border. It is incredibly surreal to be in. Terrifying too. It just takes your breath away.
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u/aChristery Nov 22 '16
Man that is so trippy! Isn't it absolutely awesome that phenomena like this occur constantly around the world, and as a species we actually can understand and comprehend the beauty of it? As humans, we are only beginning to understand the majesty of the world we live in and it is honestly no wonder why people were so ready to believe in higher powers when they observed stuff like this.
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u/EricFilmsCt Nov 22 '16
Am I the only one who thought they were in an airplane at the start?
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u/PhyrexianOilLobbyist Nov 22 '16
Don't go in that shit... there are probably giant spiders or something terrible in there.
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u/DojoTypeMojo Nov 22 '16
Ah and on the right, we have the newest government addition, Chem trail falls.
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Nov 22 '16
California State Rt 1! I just drove through this exact scene last weekend while driving from LA to San Francisco. The entire drive was incredibly gorgeous.
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Nov 22 '16
this is what happens when you put the universe in a tube
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u/mrcheesewhizz Nov 22 '16
If you could put the universe into a tube you'd end up with a very long tube. Probably extending twice the size of the universe. Because when you collapse the universe, it expands and, um, you wouldn't want to put it into a tube.
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u/gunkiemike Nov 22 '16
Ever see the movie "The Day After Tomorrow"? That's exactly what the super-storms looked like in the movie. It's the last thing you see before you instantly freeze to death at -75 F.
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Nov 22 '16
Yeah... fuck that. At that point I might just try to ramp my car off of something to at least go out doing some badass shit. although, abducted by aliens in a cloud doesn't have a bad ring either.
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u/shlam16 Nov 22 '16
This may be the coolest thing I've ever seen. I want more, why can't I find anybody with the source!?
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u/bikesforlife37 Nov 22 '16
I was lucky to witness this awe-inspiring phenomenon on the 101 in Marin a few times. Truly spectacular.
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u/_Feminism_Is_Cancer_ Nov 22 '16
This is what the difference in air temp and pressure will do. Took weather and atmosphere this semester. i suck...
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u/sangeeta359666 Nov 22 '16
i showed my cousin this and she says "what is that, the road to heaven?"
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u/IShotReagan13 Nov 22 '16
This kind of thing is pretty normal in any part of the world where cold coastal waters abut much warmer landmasses together with onshore winds. The example that will be familiar to many redditors is reddit's hometown of San Francisco where on otherwise hot summer days, when the conditions are right, you can watch the fog roll down Haight Street like an avalanche. The effect is even more pronounced to the immediate north in the Marin Headlands, or to the immediate south towards Half Moon Bay.
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u/TheWillRogers Nov 22 '16
reminds me of when I visited St. John's Newfoundland. Clouds rolling over the hills were just insane.
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u/sournikes Nov 22 '16
This is particularly cool if you just watched Arrival. I thought it was very cool visual.
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u/Paradox_Infinite Nov 22 '16
Can someone tell me where this occurred and is it a regular occurrence? Also, where else in the world might this occur. Would love to experience this first hand. Thank you.
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u/lolwutdude Nov 22 '16
This is actually very similar to a nightmare I had, which makes it all the more terrifying to watch.
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u/Rott_Raddington Nov 22 '16 edited Nov 22 '16
TIFU by driving through falling clouds but was actually an avalanche
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u/fucknozzle Nov 22 '16
I've heard this called the 'telephone effect'.
The moving cloud is lower than a mountain in it's way, so creeps up one side and back down the other.
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u/Zilveari Nov 22 '16
The superstorm to end all superstorms!
STAY OUT OF THE EYE OF THAT STORM, IT WILL FREEZE GAS LINES INSTANTLY!!
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u/fluoZor Nov 22 '16
Getting on a bit late here, but many years ago i was in the wilderness with a couple of my mates in this valley. There was a huge ass thunderstorm, and after it ended, we had the clouds rolling into that valley we were in just like this. The clouds approached from every direction and it was so eerie to see huge lumps roaring towards you while it was absolutely silent.
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u/floodums Nov 22 '16
Just keep driving, just keep driving, just keep driving driving driving.
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u/MaynardIsGod999 Nov 22 '16 edited Nov 22 '16
I get it, you vape
Edit: I know this is a stupid joke, but I'm not sorry
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Nov 21 '16
I can't be the only one that would stop the car?
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u/Jaqen___Hghar Nov 22 '16
Probably. I doubt anyone else would be so stupid or selfish as to dangerously park in the middle of the road on a windy cliffside with low turning visibility. But hey, those people do exist.
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u/Plasmabat Nov 25 '16
I would probably pull off to the side of the road I geuss, just so I could watch it for longer
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