Other cloud forms: Stock photos showing a mixed bag of atypical, non-standard cloud type examples plus anvil clouds, steam clouds, hybrid forms and difficult types to identify.

  • What kind of cloud type is this: reading the sky
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  • A challenging hybrid, hard to classify cloud type form
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  • Recognizing difficult cloud types: very high Altocumulus clouds
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  • Atypical cloud type formation: Cirrus plumes with thick fallstreaks
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  • How and why anvil clouds form: reaching the stable layer
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  • Cloud types in transition: Acc and Cumulus Congestus
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  • Difficulty identifying cloud types: looks like Cirrus but is Ac
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  • An atypical variation of the Cirrus cloud type, like Altocumulus
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  • Confusing, hybrid cloud type example: Altocumulus/Cirrus
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  • This cloud patch is an example of a non-standard cloud type
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  • Cloud type identification: high Stratocumulus and low Altocumulus
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  • Frozen cloud plumes are the anvil accessory cloud form, type
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  • This cloud sheet demonstrates how to identify a cloud type
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  • Altocumulus anvil cloud formation in a capped environment
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  • Close-up showing intricate detail in two contrails (jet trails)
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  • Anvils are accessory clouds formed as part of convective cloud
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  • A cloud of mating insects (midges or gnats) in tight column over road
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  • Steam clouds with Cumulus elements above Niagara Falls
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  • Rime from the spray and hoarfrost from the mist of Niagara Falls
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  • A steam cloud condenses from spray rising over Niagara Falls river ice
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