Clouds @ 30,000ft+

Črni vrh above Škofja Loka, Slovenia, Europe

This lenticular sucked up a whole lake and my neighbor but I missed that part---only kidding~

It was awesome to watch these things just hanging out there so close to my home and slowly changing shape—they were huge!

Lenticular means lens-like and apparently they are caused by strong upper level waves of wind hitting around high mountains condensing into clouds at the wind-waves highpoint.

Here they form near the summits of the nearly 14,000-foot two volcanoes of Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea then drift away and keep changing form over a few hours. The volcanoes are just out of sight to the left. I took this picture a couple a few years ago from my house and scanned from a slide.

By HTC Carema 360

In this one image, you can see fluffy clouds, sunny clouds, dark clouds and raining clouds.

Clouds with-in clouds exploding.

Seen this afternoon looking out over the Bristol channel from Weston-Super-Mare.

I noticed these amazing clouds as they floated by a field of recently cut grain and knew I had to stop.

Vista del Pla de Martís (comarque El Pla de l'estany) amb la muntanya "La Mare de deu del Mon al fons, en un dia assolellat i un cel ple de núvols.

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Vista del "Pla de Martis" en la (comarca del Pla de l'estnay Girona) con la montaña de "La Mare de Deu del Mon" en el fondo en un día soleado y un cielo con nuves magníficas.

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"PLa de Martis" landscape, in a sunny day with beautifull clouds on the sky in the "Pla de L'estany" region of Girona

This is just another sunset from home,

This cloud was seen in Cancun. We didn't really get any rain except one day but there were certainly many showers nearby in the vicinity.

Clouds from a Plane

I took this shot while my husband was driving 60 miles an hour down a country road. It was hard to get it with out telephone poles or any other obstructions. It wasn't long before the rain began to fall.

Törnevalla church, Linghem, Östergötland

Sonoran desert, Pima County, Arizona.

Wolkenschatten

Cloud shadows

Credits: ESA/NASA

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Taken a few days ago just down the street from my house, I thought these lone clouds in an otherwise empty sky looked pretty cool!

I am off to take Beefy for an early morning nature walk...have an excellent Saturday, everyone!

The clouds at Ocean Shores were being pretty dramatic. I was there to shoot owls (which we found) but the clouds were where my attention was aimed.

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Anvil cloud at the leading edge of a violent monsoon thunderstorm. The light is completely natural--the glow inside the cloud comes from lightning and the sun. The anvil cloud rose so high in the sky that it captured the last rays of the setting sun long after everything else in the land was darkened and in silhouette.

Note how the top of the anvil cloud looks hazy and out of focus; it is not, this is caused by upper level winds ripping apart the clouds at the top f the 'stack' or anvil. The wind erases the textbook 'billowing' margins of the cloud, causing the distinctive blurring effect.

*No manipulation of this image was done*

Venus and Jupiter playing peek-a-boo behind the clouds… can you find them?

Cascade de nuages

Cascading clouds

A cloud over the sea near Jura.

Good morning to all and a good start into the day.

Better view in black, press"L".

shaka cloud over sb...video still from my xh-a1 while shooting waterhousing at sandbar. im off to the islands tomorrow, have a good day.

Mossyrock dam

5/27

Seconds after this shot was taken the heavens opened with no warning hence the title!

jervis bay || nsw || australia

June 2: Various storm clouds threatened today. This was the most interesting. Whatever rain was in this one missed me, but who knows who received the blessings.

HDR from 3 raw exposures.