Grand Canyon Cloud Inversion: How Fog Fills the Canyon in Winter
On rare winter mornings the Grand Canyon disappears. Cold, saturated air fills the gorge with a sea of white cloud, and the buttes and templ...
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Cloud Formations & Cloud Inversions
Explore cloud formations, full cloud inversions and dramatic skies through photography and weather stories. Browse the Grand Canyon collection, then discover more atmospheric scenes, winter weather and natural phenomena.
Crown Flash Video from Greenwood, Indiana: Dancing Light Above a Storm
In June 2015 a cyclist in Greenwood, Indiana, noticed a strange light above an approaching thunderstorm, pulled over and started filming. T...
12 Strange Weather Photographs: Snow Rollers, Lightning, Waterspouts, Hail
Weather produces some of the strangest pictures ever taken: a field covered in natural snow rolls, a town sleeping on a lawn to escape the ...
Asperitas Clouds over Nebraska: The Sky That Looks Like a Rolling Ocean
Turn an ocean upside down and hang it over a quiet neighbourhood, and you get something like these skies over Nebraska. Posted to Reddit in ...
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Shelf Clouds: 20 Storm Cloud Photos From Romania to Saturn's North Pole
The low, dark wall that slides across the sky ahead of a summer thunderstorm has a name: the shelf cloud. Most of the storm photographs bel...
Richard Clarkson's Cloud Lamp: Lightning, Thunder and Music Indoors
Richard Clarkson's Cloud is a thunderstorm you can hang from the ceiling. The cumulus-shaped lamp flickers with lightning, rumbles with...
Rare Cloud Formations: Eight Types From Lenticular Clouds to Asperitas
Most clouds belong to a handful of everyday types, but a few take shapes that stop people in the street: smooth lenses parked over mountain...
Sun Halos over Finland: Pauli Hänninen’s Ice-Halo Display in Lapland
On a frozen, foggy morning in October 2013, Pauli Hänninen stepped outside in Sirkka, the village at the foot of Levi in Finnish Lapland, an...
20 Amazing Cloud Formations: Mammatus, Lenticular, Roll and Shelf Clouds
Clouds come in ten main genera, from wispy cirrus to towering cumulonimbus, but the most spectacular skies usually show something extra: ha...
Lenticular Clouds: How Mountain Waves Build UFO-Shaped Clouds
Lenticular clouds are the smooth, lens-shaped clouds that seem to park themselves over a mountain and stay there for hours. They form when ...
Slow-Motion Lightning Strike: One Second Stretched to Three Minutes
A lightning flash is over in about half a second, far too fast for the eye to follow. Slowed down with a high-speed camera, the same strike ...