Evolution: Stock photos that show the evolution of cloud features with a thunderstorm complex. The clouds or sequences reveal the storm's history or future state and structure.

  • Clouds can foretell the weather: large-scale lift or cooling aloft
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  • The storm cloud environment has something new and something old
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  • Previous phases of a thunderstorm: bright anvil flange and ghost anvil
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  • A cluster of Cumulus Congestus clouds building into a storm
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  • Multicell storm cloud evolution: second phase of strong new growth
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  • A multicell thunderstorm type evolves as a series of stronger phases
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  • Severe storm cloud devolution: crude beaver tail
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  • As the cap is breaking along the dryline Towering Cumulus build
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  • A severe storm is being born as a small Cumulonimbus pulls together
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  • Quickly building storm without a lowering, just before going severe
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  • Energetic convection shows that the atmosphere is primed for storms
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  • Early convection in pre-storm situation: Cumulus Congestus cluster
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  • Thunderstorm cloud evolution process: successively taller towers
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  • Birth of a thunderstorm cloud: a sustained, organized updraft
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  • Thunderstorm cloud initiation, the first stage lacking organization
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  • Early in the day there are clues in the sky where a storm will form
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  • What do storm cloud formations mean? Signs of multicell structure.
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  • Competing forces at work within this dark cloud axis in stormy sky
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  • Thunderstorm cloud structure and morphology: hitting the tropopause
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  • Early convection (towering clouds) in pre-storm conditions
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