A satellite image of a huge cloud that hung near Wrocław is circulating on social media. The shadow she cast is impressive — it was at least 500 km long.
A satellite image of the unusual phenomenon was taken on August 25. It shows a large Cumulonimbus storm cloud that appeared over Lower Silesia. The portal twojapogoda.pl explains that its top reached a height of several kilometers, and the rays of the setting sun falling at a very small angle, which began to reflect off the water droplets, made the cloud cast a gigantic shadow.
Enormous storm cloud over Poland
The shade cast by the cloud was about 50 km wide and at least 500 km long. It stretched from Wrocław through Opole, Katowice and Kraków to Lviv. The pogodairadar.pl portal reports that the inhabitants of this part of Poland saw at the time that the sky was clearly darkening.
The shadow of the cloud had the shape of a triangle, narrower at the horizon and expanding towards the zenith. The longest shadows of storm clouds can be up to 1,500 km.
