Sea breezes and differential heating fill the afternoon sky with puffs of white clouds.
Published Aug 11, 2013
The clouds that frequently produce severe weather—cumulonimbus—are seen building up during the afternoon over the South China Sea.
Published May 28, 2020
Cool air moving across Arctic sea ice gives rise to long parallel bands of cumulus clouds over the Norwegian Sea.
Published Mar 31, 2016Image of the Day Atmosphere Land Water Unique Imagery Snow and Ice
Distinctive lines of clouds that mirror the shape of the shore hang over the Aral Sea in this photo-like image.
Published Mar 25, 2009
Cold and dry air from Siberia typically produce this cloud formation over the sea from November through January.
Published Jan 7, 2018
An uncommon display of cloud streets formed off of the northern coast of Australia.
Published Jul 24, 2016
Cold air blows over warmer water to produce thin, parallel lines of clouds.
Published Oct 8, 2018
The Sea of Okhotsk is a winter ice factory and a year-round cloud factory.
Published Jan 3, 2018
Parallel rows of clouds can stretch for hundreds of kilometers over the open ocean.
Published Jul 27, 2013
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
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
The island itself is almost too small see in this image, but it serves as the starting point for the clouds that flow toward the northeast in a giant V shape. Amsterdam Island is a volcanic summit, the northernmost volcano on the Antarctic tectonic plate.
Published Dec 30, 2005
Cloud streets form thousands of feet above the Earth’s surface.
Published Mar 12, 2017
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
An open-celled cloud over the Pacific Ocean had a shape reminiscent of a certain circular letter of the alphabet.
Published Sep 27, 2014
Cold air moving over relatively warm ocean water produced a pattern of clouds that lined up in organized rows.
Published Nov 14, 2019
Like the freshly raked white sand of a well-tended Japanese garden, rows of clouds stream over the Bering Sea from the edge of the sea ice.
Published Jan 31, 2006Image of the Day Atmosphere Water Unique Imagery Snow and Ice
Most of us prefer our winter roads free of ice, but some cloud formations depend on it.
Published Jan 12, 2012
Gas hydrates? Nuclear tests? No. Just unusual, but natural clouds.
Published Oct 22, 2013
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