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A colorful display of iridescence over Mercogliano, Italy
A majestic sight in what appears to be a mountain wave cloud, or lee wave cloud, developing to the west of Brighton, Colorado, US
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A choppy sea and a choppy sky, as Jonathan describes, near Oriental Bay, Wellington, New Zealand
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A panoramic view of a sunset and anticrepuscular rays, taken in the middle of the Mekong River, west of Luang Prabang, Laos
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A circular contrail amidst the cirrus clouds near Wallops Island, Eastern Shore of Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, US
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A distrail and a contrail both visible through cirrocumulus, spotted over Wells, Somerset, England
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Sunrise on a crisp and frosty morning near Tarves, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
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Sun Dog over Horizon City, United States
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Cumulus fractus over New Taipei City, Taiwan
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Asperitas with signs of lacunosus spotted near Cotia, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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Cumulus congestus reaching its ceiling at the point of a layer of stratocumulus, spotted near Mt. Vernon, Washington, US
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Altocumulus stratiformis undulatus, also known as a "mackerel sky", at sunrise over Wells, Somerset, England
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Stratus fractus below a layer of altocumulus clouds over New Taipei City, Taiwan
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Radiatus over Alto, United States
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A particularly wavy cloud pattern that has characteristics of asperitas, spotted over Chesapeake, Virginia, US
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Cumulus over Arak, Northwest Iran
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