Most of us prefer our winter roads free of ice, but some cloud formations depend on it.
Published Jan 12, 2012
The Sea of Okhotsk is a winter ice factory and a year-round cloud factory.
Published Jan 3, 2018
Cool air blowing southward across the sea ice and over the comparatively warmer open water produced long, parallel bands of cumulus clouds.
Published Mar 30, 2018
Tucked between Siberia and Russia's frozen Kamchatka Peninsula, the Sea of Okhotsk was a field of ice in February 2007.
Published Feb 8, 2007
Parallel rows of clouds can stretch for hundreds of kilometers over the open ocean.
Published Jul 27, 2013
Cold winds blowing over the sea helped form rows of cumulus clouds.
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Persistent, strong northerly winds have stretched the ice cover to its second widest extent.
Published Mar 20, 2012
Warm temperatures and a stormy winter caused sea ice in the Bering Sea to plunge to record lows.
Published May 3, 2018
Gas hydrates? Nuclear tests? No. Just unusual, but natural clouds.
Published Oct 22, 2013
Nature can generate some perplexing patterns, such as this isolated, snake-like patch of sea ice.
Published Apr 15, 2018
Acquired January 16, 2010, this true-color image shows sea ice spanning the Bering Strait, and parallel rows of clouds extending toward the southwest.
Published Feb 2, 2010
Sea ice formed delicate swirls of blue and white in the Sea of Okhotsk in February 2009.
Published Feb 27, 2009
Cold winter winds helped paint a lovely scene off the coast of Labrador and Newfoundland.
Published Feb 26, 2018
The ghostly white shapes northeast and immediately southwest of Wrangel Island are sea ice. Over the course of the satellite record, Arctic sea ice has advanced and retreated past Wrangel Island many times. From 1979 to 2000, the sea ice edge at the end of summer generally fell somewhere in the vicinity of Wrangel Island, but this is not the first summer when the sea ice edge has retreated well north of the island.
Published Aug 29, 2008
South of the loosely packed ice in the northern part of the sea, parallel rows of clouds line up along the north-south axis of the wind. These “streets” of clouds form when cold air blows over the warmer, moister air that sits over the water.
Published Jan 15, 2008
The clouds that frequently produce severe weather—cumulonimbus—are seen building up during the afternoon over the South China Sea.
Published May 28, 2020
Sea ice formed delicate swirls along the coast of Baffin Island in this true-color image acquired July 11, 2009.
Published Jul 24, 2009
