Gust roller

Shelf cloud

In meteorology, the terms gust roller and turtleneck refer to two different arcus- type cloud formations that occur in connection with gust fronts :

• Shelf cloud - wedge-shaped cloud connected to the thunderstorm cell or cold front (usually meant with gust roller)
• Roll Cloud - cylindrical cloud that has no connection with the original mother cloud (less common)

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.