User:Rollcloud/gallery/weatherphenomena

Weather-related phenomena I have taken photos of

Sun halo

Optical phenomena which is caused by the ice crystals in a cirrus or cirrostratus cloud

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  22° halo
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  Sun halo
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  A sun halo
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  Sun halo and small iridescent clouds
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  Three halo phenomena: 22° Sun halo, sun dog, and a faint parhelic circle

Supralateral arc

Rare type of arc that forms as a result of sun light entering horizontally oriented, rod-shaped hexagonal ice crystals through a hexagonal base and exits through one of the prism sides

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  A circumzenithal arc with a supralateral arc below it

Circumzenithal arc

Arc that looks like a smiling face, often found accompanying sun dogs

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  Circumzenithal arc

Sun dogs

Optical phenomena that forms when the sun is either rising or setting

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  Multicolored sun dog

Coronas

Optical phenomena that forms as a result of diffraction of moonlight or sunlight caused by small individual water particles or small ice crystals in a cloud, this phenomenon also occurs in foggy glass surfaces

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  Lunar corona
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  Corona

Cloud iridescence

Optical phenomena caused by sunlight or moonlight diffracting on water particles or ice crystals on a cloud that are all the exact same size

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  Iridescent cirrus cloud
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  Cloud iridescence
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Cloud coloration

(not to be confused with cloud iridescence) Optical phenomena caused by sunlight during sunrises and sunsets

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  Red sunset
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  Orange sunset during Western Mexico wildfires
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  Sunset during the arrival of the Saharan Air Layer
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  Red and pink sunset during wildfires in Mexico
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  Orange cloud during sunset
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  Venus' belt during a sunset
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Haze

Air pollution particles trapped in dry air, which then minimize the amount of air visibility

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  The effect of wildfires miles away and fireworks going off; haze
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  Photochemical smog in Garcia NL
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  Photochemical smog in Garcia, NL
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  Haze in mountains
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  Smoky haze in nearby mountain
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Crepuscular rays

Sunlight passing off clouds

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  Crepuscular rays
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Shadows

Light being interrupted by an obstacle, for example, a cloud

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Precipitation

Falling rain or snow which is caused by a downdraft in a cumulonimbus cloud or a nimbostratus cloud

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  Raindrops in a plant
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  Rain dust in a Nochebuena, from rain carrying airbone dust having evaporated, leaving behind the dust from upper atmosphere
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  Raindrops in a plant
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  Rain shaft
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Dew

Water droplets that condense on surfaces like plants as a result of cold temperatures, high humidity and light wind

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  Dew in grass

Dust devil

Type of whirlwind which forms as a result of cool air in the atmosphere interacting with warmer air near the ground

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  Multiple dust devils
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  Big dust devil, rain shaft visible on the background

Smog

Brown or yellowish haze near the ground that is visible as a result of sunlight reacting with nitrogen oxides and at least one volatile organic compound

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  Smog
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Icicles

Ice that forms as a result of dripping water that was still dripping before a below-freezing temperature, this then freezes the water and makes the ice have a spike shape

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  Icicles
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  Icicles

Wildfires

Fires that form in a nature setting, they may or may not be caused by human activity. they normally form in hot and dry condition

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  Fire at night
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  Grassfire during the 2021 North American drought, which included the 2021 Mexican fire season
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  Black smoke from a distant grass fire
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  Smoke from a nearby grass fire
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  Grassfire being controlled by firefighters during the Mexican fire season of 2021 and the 2021 North American drought

Mist

Water particles that condense in a nature setting

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  Rainwater evaporating off hot road which was being shined on by the sun

Wind

Airflow that is caused by high-pressure and low-pressure interacting with each other; the air in the high pressure area wants to move into the low pressure, and as a result it makes airflow, the stronger the wind is, the closer the low and high pressure are

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  Wind

Static electricity

eft over static electricity from thunderstorms that remains in the air

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