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A hint of iridescence in lenticularis over the Sawatch Range in Colorado, US.
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A fingerprint of Cirrocumulus undulatus over Devizes, England
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Altocumulus over Portal Ridge Wildlife Preserve in Fairmont, California, US
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Mamma over Castres, France
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Cumulus fractus with iridescence over Woodland, Oregon, US.
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22-degree halo over Barbados, West Indies.
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Stratocumulus observed over Mt. Yasur, Tanna Island, Vanuatu. George tells us there is an ash plume visible just beneath the cloud.
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Cumulus over White Tank, New Zealand
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Stratocumulus over Nieuwege, Belgium
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Jellyfish of the sky, also known as Altocumulus clouds producing the evaporating precipitation trails known as virga, spotted drifting over Portland, Oregon, US.
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A classic cap cloud forming over Mount Rainier, Washington, US.
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Dramatic lighting of Stratocumulus spotted over Seattle from Juanita Beach, Lake Washington, WA, US.
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A high formation of Altocumulus stratiformis undulatus, also known more poetically as ‘a mackerel sky’. Spotted over Bendigo, Victoria, Australia.
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Cumulus mediocris over Vermontville, New York, US.
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A stacked form of Altocumulus lenticularis, known by the French term pile d'assiettes, spotted over Cervinia, Italy.
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Cumulus and Cirrostratus over Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England. “To my eye this cloud looks like a bizarre two-headed 'push-me-pull-you' crocodile,“ says Jeremy Williams, “but maybe I’m hallucinating!”
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Beautiful picture, Mark!
Definitely a nice mid-spring afternoon picture looking from a view-point over the vast, green, monochrome-coloured pine forests of Colorado, USA towards the spectacular Sawtooth Mountain Range, still with plenty of winter snow on the tops.
The sky is interesting, with plenty of mid-high altocumulus cloud up there(looks a lot more like high cirrus cloud to me) and a few darker-coloured, lenticular ones there as well, their edges shining with an iridescent hew. Their shape almost appear distorted as the air currents stretch them from side to side to different parts of the sky at different times. Can’t see any halo around the sun, as it usually occurs when there is high-level cloud in the sky and the sun shines on the ice crystals in the clouds and creates the rainbow colours.
From Rebecca Hill, Canberra, Australia