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Cracking gust-front, Borth 24/04/08
John Mason - 24-4-2008 at 21:07

Hi folks.
Thought I'd say a bit more about what I do when not fishing. This is one of my other severe passions:

Saw the isolated cells crossing Cardigan Bay this morning so headed out to Borth for about 8. I was greeted with this view (shot through the windscreen) - not very inspirational, but I decided to let the cells arrive and see if the visibility would get better. A very dark wall of precip passed just to my N and then I saw, pushing SE against the prevailing SW airflow, a long low raggedy line - a gust-front from the flank of the cell. I got the SLRs together and waited for it to move overhead....

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This was the seaward view.....

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Whilst this was the (better) landward one!

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It pushed on past me giving splendid structure.....

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Just after this was taken a very heavy downpour broke out right overhead. It appears that a new cell had fired smack on this outflow boundary as, seemingly from nowhere, torrents of rain and hail fell on me.

Had a lot of fun with a film SLR armed with a 19-35 mm ultrawide. These are just a few I grabbed with the compact, but they illustrate the complex interaction of boundaries that was taking place - would have made for great timelapse

Cheers - John


[Edited on 24-4-2008 by John Mason]

[Edited on 24-4-2008 by John Mason]


jon d hat - 24-4-2008 at 21:49

Great flicks...well caught