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  • 1 of 2 Morning congestus cloud seems to blossom in daylight heating above distant trees

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    … in daylight heating above distant trees. A growing, towering Cumulus before a wider stratus cloud that is far greater in volume. Stratus clouds like these may have formed initially from ground heating. Such smaller rain clouds may spread out to turn into a layer (a stratus) instead of being pushed along with a surviving core to regenerate. In these local pockets of rising air, the humidity around the cloud condenses into visibility.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    10 seconds and 22 frames.

  • 2 of 2 | Morning congestus cloud seems to blossom…

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    … in daylight heating above distant trees. Birth of a Cumulonimbus, a rising congestus carrying enough moisture to darken and sprout rain while it grows nearer. This exemplar of a congestus, a towering Cumulus cloud that has not become a Nimbus, reaches higher and higher into the sky until the day has become cloudy with a high chance of precipitation. Often other low stratus clouds obscure clouds like this, but they are quite common.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    23 seconds and 1 frame..

  • Over no horizon, scattered lower and very light clouds slowly migrate left

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    Length at 30 fps: 33 seconds and 6 frames.

  • 2 of 2 | V slow light shaft moving toward POV on top Bryce Canyon

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    Capturing a moment of time at dawn in the winter among the positively red hoodoos of sandstone and dolomite, which owes their odd shapes to the erosive patterns from these rocks. Snow blankets this unusual and wild landscape, as it stretches and flattens out into the distance where a ridge separates land and sky. The sun, out of frame, rises, and with it the snow brightens, and shadows recede.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    8 seconds and 17 frames.

  • Over no horizon, lower cumulus and upper-level clouds

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    Exemplar of towering clouds. These are called Cumulus congestus. If the clouds were closer together (greater humidity) or the air was a little warmer, a thunderstorm would have formed. Later in the day, these clouds did form a storm. One gets the impression that these clouds, when experienced in the morning or around noon, are a fair indicator of rain or lightning to come shortly. Visually observing these clouds closely allows the observer the ability to predict rainfall with higher accuracy than a weather forecast or radar alone.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    37 seconds and 13 frames.

  • 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.

  • Near Mt Whitney are low clouds building close on…

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    …rocky, snowy winter peaks. Symmetrical slopes dominate the frame, with rocks and small boulders among evergreens that lead up to near the very tips of these mountain tops. With light, low rolling clouds pouring over and piling on these steep slopes, jagged, snowy peaks poke out like jigsaw teeth.

  • Late day looks east on a meadow and clouds changing…

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    … in the distance over barn, a strange formation, a slow vortex. An atlas cedar guards over a barn, which seemingly has a small rainbow right next to it in the left portion of the frame. A meadow comprises an eighth of the frame, under growing shade from the setting sun, look west. Observed is a cloud that is raining, known as a ‘Cumulonimbus’ cloud. These clouds are chaotic in many ways from the knock-on effects that are local from so much air moving in different directions. It is eventually inevitable that an ‘eddy’ in the sky, or a small vortex, will sometimes form. This funnel-shaped cloud is by no means dangerous, as its spin only resolves to the naked eye in time-lapse.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    20 seconds and 19 frames.