Tag: towering clouds

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  • Cropped horizon with lower cloud vividly just above moving overheard

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    A small mountain formed on tectonic plate accretion that is the coastal range in Oregon, and a congestus cloud just above shows a nice angle of the cloud from side-on while high up on Mt June’s meadows, mid-afternoon. The cloud billows and transforms in a warm summer day, and when it suddenly meets a mass of dry air from the east vaklley side of the mountain, it disintegrates.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    10 seconds.

  • Thundercloud in the distance spreading into…

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    …incus stage thundercloud like a huge mushroom appearance An original, recently remastered time-lapse of the sky with clouds.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    11 seconds and 8 frames.

  • Large congestus clouds no longer climbing

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    …but holding lots of volume, has stark relief in the afternoon sky. An example of how towering Cumulus hit mid-level altostratus clouds. The dense cauliflower-looking clouds are indicative of stronger convection. This is the process of storm formation, where updrafts are apparent in high humidity.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    12 seconds and 22 frames.

  • 2 of 10 | Sierra Nevada Mountain range and midday clouds

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    Towering congestus clouds, benefiting slightly from orographic lift, float from the peaks of the southern Sierra Nevada range. As tall as the mountains they seem to stand on, they transform as they grow and lose energy away from the peaks, evaporating. On these snowy mountains, their shadows travel. Under the blue sky, which is four-fifths of the frame, high Cirrus clouds move the opposing direction.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    12 seconds and 29 frames.

  • Moonlit night with heavier clouds above a desert

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    …Landscape and highway with cars headlights, comatics. Car headlights travel quickly along the highway, which is at the foot of some mountainous foothills of the Sierra Nevada. The moonlight provides illumination to the towering, massive clouds overhead, and the orangeish headlight brightening of the lower portion of clouds is observable.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    8 seconds and 10 frames.

  • A thunderstorm cloud high in the sky and in..

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    In the distance, transforming on convective currents. Very strong convection is shown building upwards and towards the point of view. Rain came shortly after the end of the clip. The pines and other tropical trees make the horizon on the very bottom of the frame. The storm towers many thousands of feet into the sky.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    15 seconds and 13 frames.

  • Medium dense clouds float overhead and away from POV against a blue sky

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    ‘Congestus’ clouds high above in the sky, towering as their namesake suggests, orderly in their column of travel. They cover roughly two thirds to three quarters of the frame throughout. A five second interval is used.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    16 seconds and 11 frames.

  • Light towering clouds overhead

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    A single cloud, first visible then obscured goes high into the sky, propelled by rapid ground heating in the midday sunlight.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    7 seconds.