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Unusual Vortex image captured over Bishop, California. US. The vortex occurred as a huge altocumulus lenticularis wave cloud broke up.
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Altocumulus spotted during sunset over Sun City, Williamson County, Texas
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Altocumulus stratiformis spotted shortly after sunrise over Madison, Wisconsin, US
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Sunset with subtle signs of a sun pillar, spotted over Crank, Merseyside, England
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A developing cumulonimbus, which Bob observed building up for over thirty minutes near Teignmouth, Devon, England
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Sunset over Dalmatia, Croatia
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A sky of colour over Conwy, North Wales
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With birds flying in the sky, a 'bird' appears in the shape of a cloud, spotted over Fancy Farm, Kentucky, US
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Signs of Fluctus (Kelvin-Helmholtz) spotted over Podłęże, Poland
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Asperitas spotted over New Bern, North Carolina, US
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An arcus cloud, also known as a shelf cloud, ushering in a storm system near Swansea, Tasmania, Australia
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Altocumulus spotted over Taiwan
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Cirrostratus undulatus spotted towards the end of the day over Greenfield, California, US
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Multiple contrails spotted in the morning over Los Alamos, New Mexico, US
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A front with an accompanying storm, spotted near Helvoirt, The Netherlands
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Iridescence spotted from a boat in the San Francisco Bay, looking west towards Sausalito, California, US
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Catherine wheel on high?
I haven’t seen anything like this over here in our skies at all… Excellent capture!
Wow! I’d hate my aircraft to go through that!
Can’t say I’ve ever seen anything like this before. Had I seen it in the sky, I’m sure my reaction would be something along the lines of…uh-oh!
After over 50 years of skygazing, I’d rate this image as the most amazing and unusual cloud I have ever seen so far. Has anyone else seen anything like this before or elsewhere, or is this one of the new sky phenomena we get to look forward to along with accelerating climate change? GWW