Mountain effects: Stock photos showing clouds formed or shaped by the flow over high land or mountains. Mountain wave clouds formed by direct orographic lift over a high point and downstream lee waves are included, as are chinook clouds.

  • Mountain thunderstorm clouds: Cumulonimbus with frozen anvils
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  • Mountain induced convection: large Cumulus Congestus clouds
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  • Towering Cumulus cloud that formed in lift over mountains
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  • Mountains are aiding in cloud formation at two levels
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  • Early thermals on mountain tops form cloud puffs
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  • Cloud types, TCu: mountain Cumulus Congestus clouds with showers
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  • This unusual twisted cloud is a wave cloud in the first lee wave crest
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  • Two Cumulus clouds with Stratocumulus anvils, induced by hills
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  • Mountain weather storm cloud formations: Towering Cumulus
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  • Mountains upslope flow rises into a distant storm cloud
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  • Cloud types, Cb: storm cloud regenerating over hills
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  • Air forced up a mountain slope becomes Altocumulus Castellanus
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  • Clouds enhanced by mountains, with a few of the bubbling elements
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  • Small Cumulonimbus cloud created by mountain forced convection
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  • Cloud types, Cb: stationary orographic Cumulonimbus cloud
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  • The sun warms a mountain ridge and thermals rise to form clouds
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  • A clump of Cumulus Congestus clouds form over high land
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  • Lift over a mountain initiated the growth of this Cumulus Congestus
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  • Bands of high Altocumulus clouds in a standing lee wave pattern
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  • Bands of high Altocumulus clouds to the lee of distant mountains
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