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Mountain Waving

Lómagnúpur has a hat and scarf, as strong winds across the flat land in the south form lens-shaped orographic wave clouds around and above the peak.

When air blows over mountains it can set up standing waves in air downstream, like ripples forming when water flows over an obstruction. The rising motion of the wave causes water vapour to condense, forming lenticular clouds.

Text derived from weather.metoffice.gov.uk/learn…

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A colour photo of a mountain, with a foreground of bare black earth and a road running through it. There's a white van just about to crest a small hill. The mountain has a brown slab face, almost vertical, and very little can be seen of the main body of the mountain due to a suspended layer of cloud. Above the mountain top is a cloudy sky with some clear patches, and the peak is over-topped by an odd, disc-shaped cloud.

Lenticular clouds

Orographic wave clouds form when stable air and consistent winds blow across hills and mountains at different heights, creating stunning lens-shaped formations
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