Beautiful Clouds – Amazing photos of clouds in variations you never imagined

 

Beautiful Clouds – Like You Never Imagined

Clouds are a beautiful gift of nature and a great contributor to human civilizations. Besides its benefits in agriculture, clouds influence human mood, creates romanticism and thus have a strong presence in literature. It is an interesting subject for scientists too due to its complexity of formation and particles.

Despite varying immensely in terms of size, color and dimension; clouds all over the world are basically made of ice or condensed water vapor. When the ground water comes in touch with sunlight, it starts to vaporize and flies above the atmosphere. Once the water vapor cools down, they cluster together to form clouds. Only the thick and coldest clouds come down as precipitation; the rest melts away with the air.

Scientists have been trying to create a definite classification system of the cloud for a long time. In 1802, British chemist Luke Howard proposed the first classification. Since then, it has been modified, improved and extended based on various cloud shapes, altitude, color, features etc. However, one never requires scientific knowledge to appreciate beauty, and it is the same for the cloud too.

Here is a collection of amazing cloud photos that will definitely put you in awe for its variation in color and shape!

Mammatus Clouds

Mammatus Clouds

Image credits: HeavyLight.ca

 

Mammatus Clouds

Image credits: Ken Lewis –

 

Mammatus Clouds

Image credits: Vincent Fryhover

 

Lenticular Clouds

Lenticular Clouds

Image credits: Brian Middleton

 

Lenticular Clouds

Image credits: Jean-Michel Priaux

 

Lenticular Clouds

Image credits: Dementievskiy Ivan

 

Undulatus Asperatus

Undulatus Asperatus

Image credits: JΩSH

 

Undulatus Asperatus

Image credits: wittap 

 

Undulatus Asperatus

mage credits: JΩSH

 

Fallstreak Hole

Fallstreak Hole

Image credits: ladigue_99

 

Fallstreak Hole

Image credits: mtnrockdhh

 

Fallstreak Hole

Image credits: lookseenseen

 

Polar Stratospheric Cloud

Polar Stratospheric Cloud

Image credits: Alan R. Light

 

Polar Stratospheric Cloud

Image credits: FotoLind

 

Polar Stratospheric Cloud

Image credits: FotoLind

 

Cirrus Kelvin-Helmholtz

Cirrus Kelvin-Helmholtz

Image credits: drdouglascordeiro.blogspot.com

 

Cirrus Kelvin-Helmholtz

Image credits: drdouglascordeiro.blogspot.com

 

Cirrus Kelvin-Helmholtz

Image credits: pfjc&pfjc2

 

Roll Clouds

Roll Clouds

Image credits: Kick Petroff

 

Roll Clouds

Image credits: apod.nasa.gov

 

Anvil Clouds

Anvil Clouds

Image credits: Nicholas_T

 

Anvil Clouds

Image credits: hide

 

Anvil Clouds

Image credits: *Lampy*

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