Met question - lenticular clouds
Last weekend I was talking to a couple of glider pilots about mountain flying. They said that it was easy to spot lift over a mountain because you can see "lenticular clouds stacked up above the mountain like plates".
Upon further discussion, none of us could explain why the lenticular clouds are stacked up - from the theory which we knew, we all thought there should be one, single, thicker cloud.
Can anyone explain this phenomenon?
FFF
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