Tag: towering clouds

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  • Over red rocks and foothills of Colorado, a storm…

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    …builds in the early day’s blue sky. A rock feature of sharp relief on the far left of the frame borders the foothills of the mountains, where Pike’s Peak is fully cloaked in growing lower clouds. A hazy morning near noon, the near landscape is cultivated greenery and roadways with signs of people walking around. The far view shows green forests and hills spanning into a cloudy horizon in Colorado.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    11 seconds.

  • Building distant thunderstorm w/ some other random…

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    … water vapor as mist obscuring around a massive storm building in the midday sun. An original, recently remastered time-lapse of the sky with clouds.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    7 seconds.

  • Upwards blossoming convection, towering noon clouds over ocean

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    An aquamarine ocean in the lower eight frame. Precipitation, rain, is already visibly falling from the distant towering cloud, which grows and is too small of a cell to have it fall back on itself, to perpetuate itself long into the day. A sliver of a tropical beach and landscape are visible in the far-left distance. Other small Cumulus begin their ascent as the clip reaches end.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    11 seconds.

  • Late day clouds over Miami 2 of 2

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    An ocean view looking on the Miami skyline from the east. Groups of taller, late-afternoon clouds, tilting towards their direction of wind, italicized and colorful, dwarf the tallest buildings, which are reflected on the calm waters of the bay. A three second interval is used. The clouds’ lighter colors are Fawn to Lime Oak.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    10 seconds and 18 frames.

  • Morning towering cloud reflections on an ocean

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    Morning ‘congestus’ clouds on a body of seawater that is a small bay enclosed by a highway in south Florida on the west coast, near Tampa. This scene takes place early in the day when tropical storms are likely to begin formation depending on humidity and temperature and are not riding on any predominant winds. Over the two large residential buildings, a larger congestus will turn into a rain-making Cumulonimbus later that day. The ocean takes up half the frame. Views in urban areas are limited to available public spaces.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    18 seconds and 11 frames.

  • Towering Cumulus congestus growing and moving in blue skies

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    Heat, moisture, and more heat. The Everglades have this in spades. Seen here, the clouds are truly towering in their nature, being taller than they are wide at their base. These updrafts play out as visible clouds and will grow to form rain clouds. Tropical land warming accelerates these clouds around the Everglades, and the warm waters assist in visible absolute humidity.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    9 seconds and 19 frames.

  • On distant Colorado peaks and valleys roll shadows of the building clouds

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    Low clouds are attempting to build on the Grand Tetons in the early daylight. The peaks are low on glacial ice, due to late summer.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    6 seconds and 26 frames.

  • Dark rain cloud obscures the last direct daylight…

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    …behind it and the mountains it rains on below. Crepuscular rays through thick cloud cover openings shifting rapidly on the mountains.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    22 seconds and 17 frames.