Amazing cloud forms
- 2. This cloud was caused by smoke from a bushfire rising up into a cloud, making an atomic-like mushroom cloud.
- 5. This is a supercell (a cloud that produces dangerous, severe thunderstoms) over Chaparral, New Mexico in 2004.
- 7. This cloud is over Mount Baker, in Washington State. The photographer hypothesize that the cloud is striking the front of the mountain.
- 9. This was taken over Racine, Wisconsin. This is called a roll cloud, and is a sign of an incoming thunderstorm.
- 11. Clouds like this and on the previous page are called lenticular clouds. They are often shaped like space ships.
- 12. This is a rare sight in nature – a fire rainbow. This only happens when cirrus clouds are hit by the sun at a perfect angle.
- 16. Mushroom clouds are not formed from water vapor. They are the result of an explosion, like an atomic explosion or a volcano eruption.
- 19. These are roll clouds that have been formed into “ribbons” by air currents.