Spectacular Sky Art


 
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1.      Line of houses under a thunderstorm with rainbow.
 
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2.      Sun setting behind cumulus clouds.
 
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3.      Cloud to cloud to ground lightning.
 
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4.      Mammatus "clouds boiling upside down", on top of a flanking down draft.
Mammatus, also known as mammatocumulus (meaning "mammary cloud"),
is a meteorological term applied to a cellular pattern of pouches hanging
underneath the base of a cloud.
 
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5.      Massive single cell severe tornadic thunderstorm.
 
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6.  Downdraft of precipitation from a young cumulonimbus cloud.
The initial downrush happening as the rest of cell is still forming and building.
 
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7.      Leading edge of a flanking downdraft of a thunderstorm.
 
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8.      Another great mammatus – extremely unstable air.
 
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9.      Sunset on dissipating thunderstorms.
Could have two cells rotating in opposite directions, rare, but meteorologically possible, like two egg beaters.
 
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10.  Sunset dissipating thunderstorm.
 
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12.  Somewhat disorganized or dissipating thunderstorm.
Most of it already downward collapsed with the rain shield being dominant.
 
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13.  Single cell thunderstorm with cloud to ground and cloud to cloud lightning,
some being imbedded inside the cells.
 
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14.  Tornadic vortex w/lightning, multi-layer outflow boundaries.
 
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15.  Row of thunderstorms, and more beautiful cloud to cloud and cloud to ground lightning.
 
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16.  Cloud to ground lightning in the rain shield in dissipating thunderstorms.
 
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17.  Single cell "super cell thunderstorm with mammatus.
 
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18.  More great cloud to cloud and cloud to ground lightning
(This looks like Crater Lake & Wizard Island in Oregon .)
 
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19.  Tower cumulus building into a thunderstorm.
 
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20.  A tornado funnel near the ground.
Probably already on the ground, but not enough moisture or debris/dirt to see it on the ground.  Surface dirt starting the kick up.
 
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21.  Circular outflow boundaries with storm cell rotation.
 
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22.  Lowering wall cloud from mature thunderstorm.
 
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24.  A large tornado on the ground.