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A collection of Arcs and Halos over Salamander Bay, NSW, Australia. (The bright halo around the sun is a circumscribed halo with a fainter 22 degree halo inside it. A Parhelic circle passes through the sun. The lower and brighter halo near the horizon is a circumhorizon arc. The fainter halo curving upwards from it […]
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A cloud that Robyn viewed as resembling a prehistoric dinosaur creeping across the sky, spotted over Goodyear, Arizona, US
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Towards the end of a summer day, there appears to be a storm system in the background, with a layer of stratocumulus in the foreground, spotted over the Mission Mountain Range, Ronan, Montana, US
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Dramatic colours in the sky over Constantia, Cape Town, South Africa
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An array of contrails over Lusk Village, County Dublin, Ireland
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Cirrus uncinus spotted over Westbury-sub-Mendip, Somerset, England
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Sunset over Sierra Vista, Arizona, US
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On a family road trip at dusk, listening to Jimmy Hendrix's "Purple Haze", Reven looked up to see sinewy windmills on their tiptoes, whipping the lilac clouds into tiny cloudlettes, near the Altamont Pass Wind Farm, California, US.
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While waiting for his flight at Hong Kong's International Airport, this framed view of a cumulus cloud seemed like a cartoonist's "thought bubble" coming out of the dormant volcano, wherein Steven wondered what it was thinking. This view was captured from inside the Hong Kong International Airport, Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong.
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Sunset along the beach at Milford on Sea, Hampshire, England
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Cumulonimbus over Columbia, Missouri, US
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Altocumulus at dawn over Madison, Wisconsin, US
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A summer sunrise over Krzeszowice, Poland
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Altocumulus floccus over North Devon, England
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Signs of a horseshoe vortex spotted over Garrabost, Isle of Lewis, Scotland
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Fallstreak Hole (Cavum) over Wareham, England
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An incredible shot, Terry. It makes for some studying!
Well done for capturing this remarkable event. Thanks for the explanation, Les, as to what gives rise to this type of phenonmenon.
Laurence
Many thanks to Les Cowley of Atmospheric Optics for the detailed identification.
http://atoptics.co.uk/