The spectacular ‘Morning Glory’ cloud is coming to Australia
<p>The Morning Glory cloud, a surreal wave-like cloud formation that can stretch over 900kms, has adventurers headed to the north Queensland settlement of Burketown.</p>
<p>The rare meteorological formation is little known, even in Australia, and forms after dawn for about two months every year across the Gulf of Carpentaria.</p>
<p>Garrett Russell, from the Caboolture Gliding Club in Queensland, told <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="http://www.News.com.au" target="_blank">News.com.au</a></strong></span>, “Imagine a huge roll of cotton wool that stretches from one horizon to the other and is moving across the landscape at something like 40 kilometres per hour [25 miles per hour]. There are fewer people who have flown on the morning glory than have climbed Mount Everest... They’re as smooth as silk.”</p>
<p>The unusual cloud roll formation has been known to form in other parts of the world, but not with the same frequency and predictably as around the Gulf of Carpentaria.</p>
<p>Pilots in motorised gliders can spend several hours riding next to the cloud.</p>
<p>“If you’re flying at full speed, with a cloud off to your side, sometimes you might have a wing dipped into the cloud and it reminds me of when you see a surfer put his hand out and cut through the wave,” Mr Russell added.</p>
<p>To see photos of the morning glory cloud, scroll through the gallery above. Have you ever witnessed this spectacular natural <span>phenomenon</span>? Let us know in the comments. </p>
<p><em>Image credit: Twitter / Vanessa M</em></p>
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