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

  • Unusual cloud patterns and lighting, with billows and cloudlets
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  • One cloud shading another creates unusual effects
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  • Spectacular pure white Cirrus cloud plumes in triangular patches
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  • Precipitating Cirrus clouds with an uncommon form of Virga
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  • Continuous sublimation within Cirrus clouds transforms the sky
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  • Storm of large ice crystals trails like tangled strands of flowing hair
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  • Drawing a connection between cloud features: frozen collar cloud
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  • A stormy sky scene in with plenty of extremes and curiosity
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  • In this unusual weather photo wind shapes rain shafts
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  • Rare cloud pattern and detail with complex, interwoven twisted folds
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  • A rare Kelvin-Helmholz wave with breaking, cusped crests
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  • Thunderstorm cloud wannabe, a long anvil from successive updrafts
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  • Rare ice crystal cloud form: lumps of Cirrus drop delicate fallstreaks
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  • These castellated updraft towers are rare and unusual transition clouds
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  • Several dense Cirrus patches with fallstreaks (trails of ice crystals)
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  • Weather hints in the clouds: closely spaced Cirrus fingers
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  • Unusual scene with strange colors and clouds near a storm
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  • Rain falls in dense gray light shafts under a storm’s base
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  • Strange and rare cloud forms: wispy spurts atop Cumulus Congestus
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  • Layers of light and shade create a cloud mountain with layered light
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