Antarctic Dust Devil

[Steve Burrows]

Found this today, first time I have heard of this happening down on the ice. Any one for a chase??

More here:http://www.metvuw.com/

 

[B Ozanne]

That's very cool. Looks like it could be in the Utah desert somewhere. My first guess would never be Antarctica.

 

[Susan Strom]

Wow. If I didn't know better I'd swear I was looking at one of the mesas in Arizona. Dust devils are everywhere out here and sometimes they get really huge.

 

[Joe Zemek]

I am impressed by the concept of Antarctic dust, let alone seeing it in devil form.

 

[Andrew Khan]

Wow, I just looked at that site link you posted, and it looks like they get some awsome, anomalic weather there! I have never seen so many lenticular clouds and just generally unusual cloud formations or weather. Why are Lenticularis so common there?

 

[Susan Strom]

There is a nice Kelvin-Helmholtz example too.

 

[Steven Williams]

Why are Lenticularis so common there?

Most of those pics are from within New Zealand rather than Antartica.
I can imagine stratus would be the predominant clouds in Antartica.