Rare and unusual: Stock photos of rare or unusual clouds based on appearance, situation, shape or structure, or other atmospheric oddity.

  • Low rainbow with falling snow
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  • Rare condensation trail (contrail) and distrail from turbulent wake
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  • Rare, very low Kelvin-Helmholz wave cloud
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  • Rare example of intricate ice crystal fallstreaks showing wind shear
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  • A rare perfect lenticular cloud with rotor: order and chaos in harmony
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  • Standing wave pile-of-plates cloud with rotor below
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  • Rare stack of plates cloud, a dense layered wave cloud
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  • Rare example of Cirrus billows frozen in a washboard pattern
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  • Rare unusual cloud form in inflow-outflow region of a storm
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  • Rare pattern of Mammatus clouds with mamma ridges and grooves
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  • Rare updraft tower shows the shape of rising thermal
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  • A rare dry thunderstorm with Virga from evaporation and dry lightning
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  • A rare Cumulus Congestus anvil cloud showing wind shear effect
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  • A rare almond-shaped wave cloud in the crest of a standing lee wave
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