Roll clouds over a Tallahassee Florida parking lot

If someone asked me where the best place is to take photographs of roll clouds I would probably not answer “In a Publix grocery store parking lot after sunset”. However that is the place I saw and photographed my first Florida “Roll Cloud” formation.

These clouds are also known as “Cloud rolls”, “Horizontal convective rolls”, “Horizontal roll vortices”, and “Cloud streets “.

The following are two of the images I recorded in the parking lot on 01/28/2017 around 6:25pm .

Roll clouds over parking lot in west Tallahassee Florida 01/28/2017 at 6:25pm (view 1)

Roll clouds over parking lot in west Tallahassee Florida 01/28/2017 at 6:25pm (view 2)

The following photo is from the Wikimedia Commons shows how the roll clouds are formed.

For more information please see the Wikipedia article at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_convective_rolls

Thanks for visiting!
Jim