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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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Cirrocumulus undulatus spotted over Apollo Bay, Victoria, Australia
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A layer of Altocumulus spotted over Taiwan
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Mammatus (Mamma) spotted between afternoon storms near Honor Oak Park, London, England
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Altocumulus undulatus over Pyrenees, France
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Cumulus populating the sky over Sant Adrià de Besòs, Catalonia, Spain
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Sunset over Morro Araçatuba, Curitiba, Brazil
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Altocumulus with signs of lacunosus within a higher layer of Cirrocumulus, spotted over Modbury Heights Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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Altocumulus radiatus spotted during sunset near Vermontville, Adirondacks, New York, US
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Iridescence spotted over Madison, Wisconsin, US
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Mammatus (Mamma) spotted following thunderstorms near Lewisham, London, England
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Cumulus spotted shortly before sunset over Lisboa, Portugal
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Cumulonimbus with signs of pileus spotted over Torrejon de Ardoz, Spain
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A developing storm spotted over Pathum Thani Province, near Bangkok, Thailand
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Mammatus (Mamma) spotted over Girona, Catalonia, Spain
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22-degree halo spotted over Madison, Wisconsin, 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