Uploaded February 2023 | Updated September 2026, 18 hours ago
On Jan. 25, 2023, NOAA satellites captured an unusually long and long-lived rope cloud produced by a cold front over the Gulf of Mexico.
A rope cloud is a very long, narrow, rope-like band of cumulus cloud formations. Generally associated with a cold front or a land-sea breeze front, rope clouds tend to form at the dividing line between cooler and warmer air.
Read more:
nesdis.noaa.gov/news/earth-orbit-rope-clouds
Video Credits:
NOAA
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
CIRA
Music: “The Wilderness” by Benjamin James Parsons [PRS]; Sound Pocket Music; Universal Production Music
On Jan. 25, 2023, NOAA satellites captured an unusually long and long-lived rope cloud produced by a cold front over the Gulf of Mexico.
A rope cloud is a very long, narrow, rope-like band of cumulus cloud formations. Generally associated with a cold front or a land-sea breeze front, rope clouds tend to form at the dividing line between cooler and warmer air.
Read more:
nesdis.noaa.gov/news/earth-orbit-rope-clouds
Video Credits:
NOAA
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
CIRA
Music: “The Wilderness” by Benjamin James Parsons [PRS]; Sound Pocket Music; Universal Production Music
