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A turkey tower may sound like something on your Thanksgiving dinner plate, but in fact it’s a type of cloud! It’s a slang term used for describing an individual cloud tower that develops vertically, but then falls apart very quickly.
Weather Words: Turkey Tower | Weather.com The Weather Channel 2024
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"Turkey tower is slang for a narrow, individual towering cloud from a small cumulus cloud which develops and suddenly falls apart. Sudden development of turkey towers could signify the breaking or weakening of a capping inversion."
--Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Towering_cumulus_cloud&oldid=469894996)
February 9, 2012