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A lower tangent arc in diamond dust, spotted from a cable car, looking down to Grindelwald in Switzerland.
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Cumulus over Zhangqiu District, Jinan City, Shandong Province, China
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A heart-shaped opening in the cumulus cloud along the horizon, spotted near Chilsan-dong, Dongnae-gu, Busan, South Korea
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Pileus on the tops of cumulus congestus, spotted over Madison, Wisconsin, US
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Sunset after a day of high winds and rain near the Adirondacks, Vermontville, New York, US
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A moonlit night over Curtin, Canberra, Australia
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Cumulus congestus over Winthrop, Washington, US
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Altocumulus at sunset over Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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Pyrocumulus over the Perth Hills, Perth, Western Australia
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Altocumulus undulatus over Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
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Sings of a partial lunar halo in the night sky over Seattle, Washington, US
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A storm on the horizon near Villafranca di Verona, Italy
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A primary and secondary rainbow over Bluff, Utah, US
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22-degree halo over Beijing, China
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Sunlight reflecting off of altocumulus clouds over Perak, Malaysia
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Fluctus (Kelvin-Helmholtz) near the horizon, spotted over North Dundas County, Ontario, Canada
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Pretty amazing, snowy, late-winter picture, John!
Looks like you could almost enter the grand-arch rainbow diamond-dust cave entrance at the bottom of the mountain and enter into a cave system. The majestic mountain peaks almost above rise up to the cloudy heavens and appear to float on the lower-level stratus clouds gradually lifting due to the weak late-winter sun’s heat. From Rebecca Hill, Canberra, Australia