Interesting clouds along the Red NOW

[Jonathan Whitehead]

go to http://weather.cod.edu/analysis/loops/satm...ster.pl?N_Texas click on animation in upper right and tell me whats going on with those high clouds along the Red River and why they are rotating

 

[Amos Magliocco]

Looks like a little shortwave upstairs, creating both the high clouds and the turning. Some vorticity overhead.

http://weather.ou.edu/~nguyen/250mb_c.png

http://weather.ou.edu/~nguyen/500mb_c.png

 

[Steve_Stuck]

I'm looking at it right now from the south, and there's lots of virga on the outer edges of the clouds.