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

  • An atypical cloud which looks like Cumulus but is convective Cirrus
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  • Mares’ tails Cirrus clouds etch the sky with delicate ice-crystal trails
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  • Strange sights in the sky: a dark tail cloud dangles menacingly
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  • Raging supercell mesocyclone with beaver tail cloud
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  • This LP becomes a particularly rare, weird storm cloud at sunset
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  • Rare lenticular Stratocumulus cloud in standing lee wave crest
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  • Rare stationary wave cloud over mountains
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  • Close-up of rare cloud form, with elongated Mammatus clouds
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  • 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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