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A huge milestone was met today with Wx Or Not BG. The Washington Post featured Landon Hampton & Wx Or Not BG in a post about shelf clouds on Monday. Landon’s awesome pictures of the shelf cloud that swallowed up Bowling Green Sunday lead to the plug on the Washington Post. Check out the following screen capture of the article header below.
The Washington Post article went on to explain how a shelf cloud forms with the following excerpt:
“Shelf clouds are formed as cool, moist air ahead of a storm’s gust front rises and is ingested into the storm, creating a low shelf of clouds out in front of the main area of rain.”
The Washington Post also tweeted a couple times promoting the stellar images.
Photos: Ominous shelf clouds rolled through Nebraska and Kentucky on Sunday: http://t.co/XEAgO4RfC4 (ht @WxOrNotBG) pic.twitter.com/vJpk3XOIT1
— Capital Weather Gang (@capitalweather) August 18, 2014
They’re called “shelfies.” http://t.co/Bg638JatpA pic.twitter.com/XjmMg4NO40
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 18, 2014
Landon Hampton wasn’t the only meteorologist in Bowling Green to witness and document the incredible shelf cloud. Check out this time lapse video by Dr. Joshua Durkee, a meteorology professor at Western Kentucky University.