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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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A mixture of clouds and wildfire smoke in this 90-second exposure photograph near Bluff, Utah, US
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Altocumulus over Temecula, California, US
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A storm system near Guna, Madhya Pradesh, India
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Cumulus spotted over Esfahan, Iran
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Altocumulus spotted shortly after sunrise over Toyohama, Fukuoka City, Japan
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Cumulus humilis spotted over Falls Church, Virginia, US
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Cirrus uncinus spotted during the late morning over Modbury Heights, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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22-degree halo spotted over Vancouver, Washington, US
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Converging contrails create a matrix in the sky, spotted over Estrella Foothills, Arizona, US
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Primary and secondary rainbows spotted over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
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22-degree halo spotted over Carlton, Washington, US
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A colourful evening view over Mahajeran, Iran
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Pileus spotted above Cumulus congestus near Guna, Madhya Pradesh, India
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Cloud-to-cloud lightning spotted during a thunderstorm near Lewisham, London, England
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A storm that brought some relief to the hot weather in the region, including Wantage, Oxfordshire, England
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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