Yesterday sat. imagine near Greece

[Crostorm]

In northeastern picture you can see the island of Samothraki.There is small "cyclones", which even an eye form then move on the southwest and dissolve.Intresting



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[HURAKAN]

That's very interesting!!!

[Ed Mahmoud]

Not as pretty as that, but the 'marine layer', the area of low clouds and fog often off-shore Southern California, caused by condensation over the very cold shelf water upwelling, will sometimes form swirls and eddies like that.

[Squarethecircle]

It's an island causing the air to move in a spiral motion. I believe the term for a long line would be a "vortex street". I don't believe, however, that I have ever seen one with clouds wrapped around a clear center.

Awesome find.

[Crostorm]

[Pedro Fernández]

They seem to me Von-Karman vortexes... Although I have never seen some like those...

[Squarethecircle]

They're definitely Von Karmans, although the single direction rotation is fairly odd, though certainly not unprecedented, and the 'eye' feature is very, very unusual.