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

  • 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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  • Altocumulus bands make the sky like looking through Venetian blinds
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  • The interplay of shapes, shadows and sunlight on varied cloud tufts
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  • Transformation of a high Altocumulus cloud patch
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  • A lone Cumulus tower has formed an anvil cloud at stable level
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  • Rare Kelvin-Helmholz wave clouds pattern
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  • A close look at an anvil edge aids in interpreting cloud structure detail
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  • Vertically stacked wave and Helmholz effect clouds
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  • A bright crack appears in a dark cloud sheet as the heavens part
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  • Flat cloud billows undulating in a washboard effect
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  • Altocumulus cloud sheet with a ribbed pattern of long billows
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  • Low-level convergence creates a strange cloud formation
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  • Unusual colors and light in clouds along an outflow boundary
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