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Old 16th February 2002 | 07:17
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john_tullamarine
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Bit hard to tell what the photo contains .. however the flaps leave a fairly strong trailing vortex and in conditions of moderate to high humidity the core will be seen due to condensation.

A characteristic of any vortex is a significant radial pressure gradient. The pressure reduction is associated with an adiabatic temperature drop .. the RH increases and at dew point you have a visible record of the vortex core in the condensate.

This is probably what you were seeing, I suspect ?

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