User:Rollcloud/gallery/weatherphenomena

Weather-related phenomena I have taken photos of

Sun halo edit

Optical phenomena which is caused by the ice crystals in a cirrus or cirrostratus cloud

22° halo
Sun halo
A sun halo
Sun halo and small iridescent clouds
Three halo phenomena: 22° Sun halo, sun dog, and a faint parhelic circle

Supralateral arc edit

Rare type of arc that forms as a result of sun light entering horizontally oriented, rod-shaped hexagonal ice crystals through a hexagonal base and exits through one of the prism sides

A circumzenithal arc with a supralateral arc below it

Circumzenithal arc edit

Arc that looks like a smiling face, often found accompanying sun dogs

Circumzenithal arc

Sun dogs edit

Optical phenomena that forms when the sun is either rising or setting

Multicolored sun dog

Coronas edit

Optical phenomena that forms as a result of diffraction of moonlight or sunlight caused by small individual water particles or small ice crystals in a cloud, this phenomenon also occurs in foggy glass surfaces

Lunar corona
Corona

Cloud iridescence edit

Optical phenomena caused by sunlight or moonlight diffracting on water particles or ice crystals on a cloud that are all the exact same size

Iridescent cirrus cloud
Cloud iridescence

Cloud coloration edit

(not to be confused with cloud iridescence) Optical phenomena caused by sunlight during sunrises and sunsets

Red sunset
Orange sunset during Western Mexico wildfires
Sunset during the arrival of the Saharan Air Layer
Red and pink sunset during wildfires in Mexico
Orange cloud during sunset
Venus' belt during a sunset

Haze edit

Air pollution particles trapped in dry air, which then minimize the amount of air visibility

The effect of wildfires miles away and fireworks going off; haze
Photochemical smog in Garcia NL
Photochemical smog in Garcia, NL
Haze in mountains
Smoky haze in nearby mountain

Crepuscular rays edit

Sunlight passing off clouds

Crepuscular rays

Shadows edit

Light being interrupted by an obstacle, for example, a cloud

Precipitation edit

Falling rain or snow which is caused by a downdraft in a cumulonimbus cloud or a nimbostratus cloud

Raindrops in a plant
Rain dust in a Nochebuena, from rain carrying airbone dust having evaporated, leaving behind the dust from upper atmosphere
Raindrops in a plant
Rain shaft

Dew edit

Water droplets that condense on surfaces like plants as a result of cold temperatures, high humidity and light wind

Dew in grass

Dust devil edit

Type of whirlwind which forms as a result of cool air in the atmosphere interacting with warmer air near the ground

Multiple dust devils
Big dust devil, rain shaft visible on the background

Smog edit

Brown or yellowish haze near the ground that is visible as a result of sunlight reacting with nitrogen oxides and at least one volatile organic compound

Smog

Icicles edit

Ice that forms as a result of dripping water that was still dripping before a below-freezing temperature, this then freezes the water and makes the ice have a spike shape

Icicles
Icicles

Wildfires edit

Fires that form in a nature setting, they may or may not be caused by human activity. they normally form in hot and dry condition

Fire at night
Grassfire during the 2021 North American drought, which included the 2021 Mexican fire season
Black smoke from a distant grass fire
Smoke from a nearby grass fire
Grassfire being controlled by firefighters during the Mexican fire season of 2021 and the 2021 North American drought

Mist edit

Water particles that condense in a nature setting

Rainwater evaporating off hot road which was being shined on by the sun

Wind edit

Airflow that is caused by high-pressure and low-pressure interacting with each other; the air in the high pressure area wants to move into the low pressure, and as a result it makes airflow, the stronger the wind is, the closer the low and high pressure are

Wind

Static electricity edit

eft over static electricity from thunderstorms that remains in the air