Extraordinary photographs of a huge shelf cloud hitting the coast of New South Wales, Australia. The meteorological event – technically a type of arcus cloud – is a wedge of cloud formed at the leading edge of a thunderstorm where the downdraft and an updraft of the storm intersect. The shelf cloud seen here – dubbed by Twitter a ‘cloud tsunami’ – measured several kilometres in length and swept across the city throughout the afternoon and early evening
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