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On a journey along deep sand, Lynda's friend, Fayne Connelly, captured this view of the sand and the sky during a trip between the Savuti Plains in Botswana travelling to Zambezi Mubala Campsite on the banks of the Zambezi.
Sunset over Puget Sound near Edmonds, Washington, US
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Altocumulus over Vermontville, Adirondacks, New York, US
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A unique juxtaposition of clouds and light, yielding a sight that is ripe for the imagination, spotted over Gaw Hill, Ormskirk, England
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Crepuscular rays over Wyncote, Pennsylvania, US
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Asperitas spotted over Chatham, Massachusetts, US
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Signs of asperitas over North Brunswick, New Jersey, US
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Mammatus (Mamma) over Kottayam, Kerala, India
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Asperitas over Torhout, West Flanders, Belgium
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Fluctus (Kelvin-Helmholtz) spotted over southwestern Germany
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Signs of asperitas over Mount Hope Cemetery, Mapleton, Iowa, US
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Light rain spotted near Fukushima, Japan
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Signs of storm development over Manzanita, Washington, US
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With the sun rising behind Aldo Brando, the photographer, these anti-crepuscular rays were spotted. Anti-crepuscular rays appear when tall clouds in front of the rising or setting sun cast long shadows across the sky which can be seen receding off into the distance when facing away from the sun, as was the case here, near Bogota, Colombia.
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Stratocumulus lenticularis, a less common formation of lenticular clouds, which develop at a lower level of the atmosphere, spotted over Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia
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Asperitas spotted near the Noko Ferry Terminal, Fukuoka City, Japan
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