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Actinoform Structures are not seen frequently, though they can be seen quite often.
They can be observed where there are large fields of open and close convective cells: mostly over East Pacific
not far from the Peruvian cost, as well as not far from the Atlantic coast of Brazil and above the Indian Ocean
close to the coast of Western Australia.
According to some weather reports the clouds of these structures are the source of drizzle.
Not often it is possible to watch large (up to 600 - 700 km) cloud structures bearing some similarities to the
Actinoform structure and undergoing dissociation (possibly the increase of the dimension causes the structural
instability). It is hard to say exactly if such enormous formations belong to the Actinoform structure, because
there is no valid physical description of this structure yet.
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