Undular Bore Off Maine Coast
That's right, I said Undular Bore. I didn't know what it was either, until My Buddy Scott @ SSEC's CIMSS, Satellite Interpreter Extraordinaire [JessePedia] enlightened me. It was off the coast of Maine last night, and it was spied by blog reader Rod. Scott has an example of undular bore in the Gulf on his blog.
Should you be in the wild, It's crucial that you understand the difference between Undular Bore and a Non-Undulating Bore. An illustration is below, including the example off the coast of Maine last night.
Below is an animation that I captured from NASA's satellite site last night (click here for the high-resolution version).
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Undular bores are series of wave clouds that are usually associated with a temperature inversion, from what I can tell of Scotts example from April 11th, another example from him in 1998, and this example published in the AMS Journal in 1997 and another in 1992. Note that all of those were off the coast of Texas; this was the first example of undular bore I could find from the East Coast.
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