Everyday skies
Cumulus
Little heaps of possibility
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Cloud Atlas
Weather clues, places to look, and little things you never noticed. These are observing guides, not local forecasts or automatic identifications of your photo.
Everyday skies
Stratus
The sky pulls up a blanket
Everyday skies
Stratocumulus
A patchwork ceiling
Everyday skies
Nimbostratus
The patient rainmaker
Everyday skies
Altocumulus
Islands in the middle sky
Everyday skies
Altostratus
Sunlight through frosted glass
Everyday skies
Cirrus
Ice written in the wind
Light in the sky
Cirrostratus
A veil around the Sun
Everyday skies
Cirrocumulus
A sky full of tiny scales
Storm architecture
Cumulonimbus
A mountain made of weather
Mountain clouds
Lenticular clouds
The sky’s flying saucers
Storm architecture
Mammatus clouds
Pockets underneath the sky
Rare formations
Asperitas clouds
An ocean above your head
Rare formations
Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds
Waves breaking in thin air
Rare formations
Fallstreak holes
A window punched through cloud
Storm architecture
Pileus clouds
A cloud wearing a little hat
Everyday skies
Virga
Rain that never lands
Storm architecture
Shelf clouds
The storm’s leading edge
Rare formations
Roll clouds
A rolling pin on the horizon
Rare formations
Noctilucent clouds
Night-shining silver
Light in the sky
Nacreous clouds
Mother-of-pearl skies
Everyday skies
Contrails
Flight paths made visible
Everyday skies
Fog
A cloud you can walk into
Everyday skies
Cumulus humilis
Small clouds, big imagination
Storm architecture
Cumulus congestus
The cauliflower towers
Everyday skies
Cirrus uncinus
Hooks across the blue
Storm architecture
Altocumulus castellanus
Tiny castles in the air
Everyday skies
Undulatus clouds
The atmosphere has rhythm
Light in the sky
Cloud iridescence
Pastels at the edge of a cloud
Light in the sky
22 degree halo
A ring drawn in ice
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