The Weirdest Clouds that You’ll Ever See

really weirdest clouds i ever seen here

Amazing!! Great shots!

Awesome clouds! Nature is fascinating

Nice collection!

Wow. Those are some impressive clouds. Great compilation.

What a fantastic collection! Thanks for taking the time to put them together. The fourth image with the US and Texas flags is just amazing.

Those are wicked. Clouds have inspired me to write poetry before, not design directly yet…hmmm Got me thinking!

Those are some really weird looking clouds… Some of them look as if they have been photoshoped though

Acts of nature… Simply love this posts… Thanks for sharing it ^^

Thanks for sharing these. One of the pics looks like the clouds flow with the shape of the mountains.

wow.. this is REALLY weird ^^

Cool, I’ve never came across any one of above clouds in my life yet.
Regards.

Some of these are crazy

Great post

I liked the one with the weird cloud.

Great collection!

photoshop

Weird indeed.

Google search: haarp

Also, do some research into weather modification.

Your reality isn’t what it appears to be.

just thought i’d add an image i took a while back

Great collection! I’ve got a nice photo of a single cloud in a shape of heart taken a few weeks ago. Maybe it’s not as strange as your ones but looks unusual. Unfortunately, it was taken using mobile phone so its quality is poor and it’s noisy. Too bad. I would post it here otherwise to extend your collection.

Anyway, thanks for sharing all these photos!

wow

Its fantastic

Beautiful !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Weird indeed!

Wow, that is way kewl dude!

rt

I love taking photos of the sky… if I was to look up and see some of these sights, I’d be over the moon!

Terrific post!! If you want to see another “roll cloud” or some “Morning Glory” that turned up in Australia, check out a post my mate Max did: http://magazine.gritfx.com/morning-glory/

I second this comment. Reading about the Haarp project is very interesting indeed!

yes,, mostly of the pictures are fake..

Would really like a small blurb and explanation around the meteorological forces that cause each of these weird clouds.

Incríveis imagens, algumas inacreditáveis!

Wow, I love that one…. I’ve added it to the collection, thanks!

I don’t think they are. Our reality is more interesting than we think and not everything strange is automatically Photoshop.

I checked to make sure that I don’t put any Photoshopped images there, and I didn’t find any evidence pointing to that.

Some of these picture are extraordinary, especially the two caps on top of the hill

Wow this site has gone downhill fast.

How is this relevant at all?

The main reason: Diversity for inspiration in unexpected places.

These are ones of the most impressive pictures I’ve ever saw ! o_O

Big thanks !

These weird cloud formation often happen around high Mountains, look at Ararat, Kilimanjaro & Mount Everest. The cloud formations seem to be clinging to the peak of a large mountain, this is because these super mountains have their own microclimates, They are hot at the base and cold at the top. This phenomenon is called Orographic lift.

Wow!!!! Amazing and thanks for sharing.

You’re welcome! And thanks… I’m sometimes a little unsure about sharing a link on someone elses post. However, I’d hoped you’d like it!

I also saw/read the “photoshop” comment and your reply… nice rebutle!

http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/clouds/4.jpg most shocking one.

I didn’t think a “mushroom cloud” could qualify as part of this list!

I don’t think anyone wants to see a mushroom cloud close to them

“Your reality isn’t what it appears to be.”

You don’t sound cool, just so you know.

Have a look at this time lapse of clouds, it appears as if the light has refracted from it creating a rainbow effect.

http://www.roomurdock.com/?p=658

This remaind me one nigthmare i have a lot T_____________T

I’ve seen some of these clouds before at different website but not as many as you have here…great collection, very lucky for those who happened to be at the site of the cloud formation. Thanks for sharing!

thanks for sharing
great collections

Its just mind boggling…zapped!!

amazing gallery!

Awesome collection! BUT….when you see the clouds that look like egg shells….RUN…they are usually followed by a tornado!!

Nice shot of pictures

What an Incredible planet we live on.

We should hang on to it.

nah! those are really weird

These are awesome! I’m left speechless. I heard about those mammatus clouds that enveloped New York City sometime back, but everything else just blows your mind!

Meanwhile, not long ago, I managed to catch this magic lamp in the sky http://www.flickr.com/photos/unlistedsightings/3904256998/

The fourth photo looks awesome.

those are crazy. heres one i took not too long ago that looks similar to some of these.

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/4739/dsc3038i.jpg

I was lucky enough to have my camera around when looking up I saw this huge “question mark” (totally unretouched)

http://foton.zenfolio.com/p450272720/e2cd061c0

Funniest thing is that I was thinking “What am I doing here ?”

Cool collection.
Bob

Nature can be so beautiful… great post

Some really amazing clouds. It’s hard to believe that all of these are made only by nature

Photoshop?? it’s amazing! Incredible effects!! I don’t have words…

I find it hard to believe that some of these aren’t photoshopped .. yet …. nature really is filled with extraordinary, almost miraculous things. Sometimes reality/nature is even more extraordinary than imagination.

those clouds are so amazing

Is it Photoshoped?

wow,amazing,freaky,..& beautiful.

Clouds? I don’t care about the clouds… i care about what is hidden inside these so-called “clouds”. *suspicious*

Cool images. Thanks!

..fantasticas nuevas formas de nubes!.desde niño me gustaba observar las diferentes formas de nubes,formas de caras gigantes con enormes narices,formas de dinosauriosy en los atardeceres las nubes tipo cirros y estratos con las las diferenres coloracones que da el crepusculo cuando el sol va desapareciendo en el horizonte,vaya!!

Great shots, but some of them do look like fakes… but i guess they are not

Wow. I can’t wait to find a way to use these somehow in my next web design.

I can’t beleive that clouds could be so intriguing……… great shots !

Here’s one that appears to be a combination of mammatus and something else. You have my permission to use.

Thanks for the very meaningful contribution

hot

Here’s an arcus shelf cloud I photographed a while back.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/justinwoods/4039959602/

hhaha some of them looks like ufos.

it appears that the “mushroom cloud” is NOT nuclear in origin , as you surmise, but volcanic (thus natural).

Tim, you’re “weird”, too.

cool:D

wow – some of those are really scary

Fake!

WTF? They’re all weird!

Thank you I needed a laugh this morning and still giggling

Hi
wow Thanks
Im from iran GREEN for freedom

Using HDR to accent the could photography is some what cheating. I love the pictures but one doesn’t need photoshop to take great pictures of clouds.

Actuly the first pic isn’t a normal “cloud” its a incredible high Wave that made it float while the rest of the water fell down ;D

Perhaps you should move to Rancho Santa Fe……….

Normal or not, still a cloud. Not checking the dictionary, “my” definition of a cloud is water vapor visable in the atmosphere above 1800 feet of the earths surface. Below that altitude, it might be called fog. Exceptions? …..well, other substances could create a cloud and also, I don’t know about night time as the cloud might not be visable and, gosh, may not even exist at all. …….thoughts?

Perfect pictures, gratz…. just i want say gratz!..

really nice

I experienced mammatus clouds after driving through a crazy storm in Montana last year where we nearly died.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/amaliachimera/2671659422/

And then this photo ended up being used for the Bowerbirds’ new record “Upper Air.” So rock on, awesome clouds.

I took a photo of a weird cloud too, some years ago:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/geeknoble/9152433/

Magnificas imágenes…

Saludos cordiales desde Málaga.

God is a designer!
Thanks for this nice post!

NoOssa!
Maravilhoso

Amazing cloud formations. Are these clouds for real or are some of them manipulated by photoshop ?
I mean, seeing this one – http://www.flickr.com/photos/lsydney/2209154898/sizes/l/ , it looks unreal doesn’t it ?

Thanks. Made my day.

Thanks for the incredible photos!

I used to live in storm country so I’ve seen formations like a couple of these and they’re always the kind that make you stop and stare.

Maybe we ARE being watched!

very cool collection!

aliens, ruuuuuuunnnnn

Fake

Here’s a cloud with the shape of Romania:
http://optimist.ro/index.php/2008/10/norul/

amazing photos – thanks !!

Some of those pics look like end-of-the-world clouds. If I’d seen them for real, I’d definitly need a change of underwear… very creepy.

These are really amazing pics.

Very cool. You should go to Calgary and see their Chinook clouds. Amazingly distinct.

I’ve never seen clouds THAT cool – amazing pics!

Very cool post. I have seen a lot of them, but the one’s I haven’t seen are unbelievable.

A picture I made more than a year ago in Tallinn, Estonia:

http://www.shotsbyme.com/161/

No photoshop tricks or long shutter (normally a long shutter speed could create a shot like this, but this one had a shutterspeed of 1/40).

Damn, Are all those for real? Some weird formations you have their. I read the Post about the tubular clouds, No explanations have been identified as of now Its pretty weird.

Nice roundup though, keep it up bud.

oh! very nice

Here you can find lots of more cool clouds!

http://cloudappreciationsociety.org/

Have to agree with qq

I am a Nature Photographer, in my web you can see a photograph of an storm in a beach with a very strange cloud formation.
Here´s the web
http://www.naturalezainvisible.com

Here´s is the photo:
http://fernandoalvarezcharro.googlepages.com/Tormenta_En_Laga.jpg/Tormenta_En_Laga-full.jpg

some of them look ‘shopped’
most are good indead

I saw this one in Iceland: http://gallery.elan.rulez.org/korn/Utazasok/Island-2007/Best-Of/Andras%20kepei/Strokkur%2C%20Geysir%2032-andras.jpg

And these pictures were taken of a storm over Budapest, Hungary: http://gallery.elan.rulez.org/korn/Idojaras/Vihar/Lagymanyos%2C%2020040506/

Not as spectacular as most of the ones above, but still interesting.

Nice images. I photographed some funny clouds in the Syrian desert earlier this year:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tom-allen/3259318871/

Man some of these clouds are out of this world I have never seen anything like them! Its hard to belive that first cloud pic is real!

I don’t think it’s a mushroom cloud, I believe it’s volcanic ash mixing with the clouds above

i bet that the 7th one was an invisible space craft (for real)

Awesome!

wow, thats trippy stuff.

Had a great time browsing that huge collection of unreal cloud formations. Time to go back and click through to see them on flickr.

Those clouds are so amazing…

Not surprising, if any ne would care to look up every now and again you may
see commercial jets dropping chemical trails that may cause these strange sights
plus many that you cannot see.
I dn’know, just a thought maybe perhaps.
Ooh nice Mohamadi sleepin.

Joel
Here you can find many more cool clouds.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2815320198655156407#

Please tell someone else.

I’ll never look at a cloudy day the same way again! Lovely collection – thanks for sharing!

Well, better call the Ghostbusters =D

This one is new. Cloud over Romania.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWR_w7RqQPU

Way cool,
God is awesome and those were inspiring.

One cloud pic I saw was of a mouse. http://www.rentokil.com/blog/the-biggest-mouse-ever-see/comment-page-1/#comment-2289

Awesome….. no any words and infact wierdiest clouds..

found this on twitter a super wow thanks so much
I will repost & share with twitter friends

There is no evidence that these clouds are natural. Are they photoshopped? I don’t know.

The weirdest clouds I’ve ever seen and that I won’t forget! Awesome post!

Fantastic! Never have I had the opportunity to see all these formations in one place!! Keep it up, great place to show budding pilots how its like.

Hesed….Please, Chemical???……..get a brain. With just a nominal IQ, one would know that con-trails are composed of condensed WATER and, to a lesser extent, the products of combustion as found coming from the exhaust pipe of the average family car. OK, OK,.. Upon further thought, I suppose that water and exhaust by-products can be classified as chemical……….my bad. I would say, though, that most of the cloud formations depicted in the attached photos are a result of unusual weather conditions, NOT man made.

Here you can see three of my cloud photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vamapaull/760438723/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vamapaull/1419154299/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vamapaull/2278985729/

I just found this link. You may like to take a look at it:

http://www.pals.iastate.edu/carlson/main.html

(Cool Clouds for “Kids” of All Ages)

is it for real??

I smell photoshop really bad here (maybe I’m wrong or…)

Those were so weird they looked scary…

God is an awesome artist!!! wow!!

Nice pics. tho some appear to be photoshopped O_o

now that I’ve seen the weirdest clouds that i’ll ever see, I’m never looking at the sky again.

Hey amazing pictures ! Congratulations ! These clouds are reeeally .. WHOA !

Look at the sky just once in your life, and u see the photoshop clouds.

Awesome ! Superb !

http://marykathryn.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/hanging-in-there/#comment-15471

This blogger posted a very cool cloud picture and I immediately thought of you.
~a

funtastic very very amazing

I totally dig those clouds. Some of those are just unbelievable. Great cloud hunting!

Freaking super AWESOME!!!!~~~~())))(((((0)))))~~~~~lloorr11

In the recent months at 6:30 a.m., I spotted several cloud formations in the shape of a helix, I had never seen that before and don’t even know how to find out how that happened. These are fascinating.

Had a great time browsing that

wicked. some of those are really insane.

“Angel” cloud

http://www.radioloo.nl/sl09.jpg

oktober 19 2008
Kruiningen
The Netherlands

Wow!…Great clouds collection!
Thanks for sharing.

Some of those are whit photoshop but other are just incredibly beautiful and weird. Nice job!

Check out this website: http://cloudappreciationsociety.org/gallery/

hey.

watch this. a pair of mysterious eyes on the sky. frightening:

http://www.harbinet.net/musicvideo.php?vid=762a25e62

wow! I mean Really WOW!
2 or 3 of them , I could swear , are designed! but if you say they’re photographs , I’ll Try to Believe You!
niCe jOb DuDe!

one of my favorite cloud formations is the Kelvin-Helmholz clouds. here is a link to a few pics:

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/Atmosphere/images/kelvin_helmholtz3_big_jpg_image.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin%E2%80%93Helmholtz_instability

http://www.siskiyous.edu/shasta/map/mp/bswav.jpg

http://www.siskiyous.edu/shasta/env/clouds/ (see “wave clouds” at the bottom of the page)

http://cloudappreciationsociety.org/version2/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/b_wong-high.jpg

Fantastic!…

Wow, this is gorgeous! Those guys should sell the photos at Pixmac and make some money

There are a few of those clouds in there that if you see you want to head in the opposite direction real quick.

It is really nice, and a good place/website

amazing collection..I like it

Nice HAARP clouds!

When does the invasion start? Great photos I like the one of the Morning Glory in the Gulf.

Incredible collections. I’ve seen some pretty weird clouds in my life but none compared to these. The photo taken from an airplane showing clouds in tube shape is almost unbelievable.

Good Job!

Most amazing! takes my breath away. I could look at these clouds all day.

The most amazing cloud:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tsack/159780219/

It’s a circumhorizon arc, also known as Rainbow cloud

Another crazy one…

http://i48.tinypic.com/2rg0q5y.jpg

Those are wicked. Clouds have inspired me to write poetry before, not design directly yet…hmmm Got me thinking

@Romi – definately! The last picture is my personal favourite, just surreal!

At least one picture made with Photoshop.

Nice collection. I’d like some higher res versions as desktop wallpaper.

I found this 35 HQ images cortesy by Bostom Globe: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/europe/.

I hope enjoy them!

These are great shots – very inspirational. I’d also love to see a series of wave photos as I believe that the ocean can be as dramatic as the sky. A Stumble for your efforts

There was a moment when I thought why can’t I get to see one of these in real. These are beauties… would really love to capture something like this on camera.

Uuuuh – third one from the sun, right?

http://incomod-media.blogspot.com/2009/10/aparitie-ciudata-pe-cerul.html

I think the term “UFO clouds” is very appropriate. Amazing shots, well done.

all are beautiful!!

Coool =D
Some of them seem completely made up

Wow, such an awesome collection. And this post is very popular indeed with over 2000 tweets, I would like to share my collection ‘Megacosm: The Eternal Sky and Clouds’ @ http://lensarts.blogspot.com/2010/06/megacosm-eternal-sky-and-clouds.html I love nature and photography,I’ve shot the pics at my home during dusk.

you’ve never seen clouds like these? move to central oregon, This type of nature is a regular. it’s not UFO’s, it’s just how the pressure reacts to the mountains.

2012 years ar comming… Armagedon ^^

BEAUTIFUL! THE GOD’S CREATION IS AWESOME!

Amazing stuff. Some of the pictures are almost unreal!! Enjoyed this post a lot.
but hey, whats so inspiring about it anyway? LOL

so amazing..awesome

awesome!! some truly great shots that have already inspired some new design ideas – thanks!

Awesome pictures, I’m amazed! Very good job!

great picture… very attractive cloud picture..

is anyone reading my comment?

Wow,

I`ve never seen such clouds and my first impression when i scan the pictures was… “it must be fake, this cannot be real…” but seems that nature is so unpredictable and beautiful that it sometimes gives us some beautiful presents..

Greets from Germany,
Rafael

For anyone saying these are photoshopped, here are some links that talk about these cloud formations:

http://www.srh.weather.gov/srh/jetstream/synoptic/clouds.htm#skywatcher
and
http://www.srh.weather.gov/srh/jetstream/synoptic/clouds_max.htm

Cloud identification pages

http://cloudappreciationsociety.org/collecting/

I still remember seeing a cloud formation that looked JUST like 2 elephant seals fighting!

wow, beautiful cloud nice, i love it

Wow. I can’t wait to find a way to use these somehow in my next web design.

Great picture!!!
amzing….

I could look at clouds all day. (:

O my GOD…!
How could you find that amazing pictures…??
Awesome…!

You can’t see such clouds here in tropical countries….

wow, amazing…its very beatuiful

i bet that the 7th one was an invisible space craft (for real)

Wow. Great views

Very Inspirational collection. The site gets better all the time. Nice work. =)

Is that real or just some effect???

Cool images. great

Is this retouched with photoshop right? It is hard to believe is real….
Well, even if is not real, great work!

Those photographs are stunning. I’ve never seen such weird cloud formations before. Thanks for gathering those

the video isn`t a natural cloud… it`s an russian experiment to get rid of rainclouds, the most moscow people dont know that, and still many believe in an alien spacecraft or natural clouds…

nice pictures

The second pic freaked me out

The 13th photo looks like there is a tournado!

I think maybe some of them will be photoshopped. But looks awesome still

One of them looks like a pie in the sky excuse the pun

These clouds blow my mind, i dont think we get clouds like the in New Zealand

Yeah the second one looks like a surfboard

Fantastic….I must say these are amazing pics.really weirdest clouds.

the clouds were weird looking and some of the clouds were like just exploding.

FLIP, how did you get all these pics. I was looking for some cool clouds for my wallpaper. This is great!. thanks

WOW, hard to believe these form naturally!

Fab pictures. Love to see an iPhone app that randomly changes the wallpaper using images like these.

Love the clouds, just book marked the page. Cheers for the post.

Awesome clouds man. Why dont you put it in a screensaver then sell it

awesome..when i look this pic..i felt calm..beuty of clouds

man i am totally spinning out. Are these actually real. I somehow suspect some of these clouds are done in photoshop. None the less, they are pretty darn awesome.

i must say that someones scares me, but it´s simply beautifull, i hope someday take a picture and share it with your

I am a hobby photographer myself and also saw already a number of weird clouds, but your collection really tops anything! Nature is the best artist!

This is a collection of very beautiful and partly bizarre clouds. For everybody who loves to watch cloud formations this is one of the best collections I have seen on the Internet.

I’ve got a nice photo of a single cloud in a shape of heart taken a few weeks ago. Maybe it’s not as strange as your ones but looks unusual. Unfortunately, it was taken using mobile phone so its quality is poor and it’s noisy. Too bad. I would post it here otherwise to extend your collection.

Here area couple of excellent videos of a hang glider flying the Morning Glory cloud formation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAGS3d4i-DE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMdyT-rIXao

Wow – they are pretty awesome clouds!! And the video is pretty cool . . . Thanks for the post nice to see something a little different on here now and again.

Cheers guys

Clearly the only rational explanation is aliens.

The sixth one down looks like nearly a carbon copy of some clouds I shot in NYC in the summer of 2008: http://www.dennispkramer.com/photography.html

its the same thing!

Amazing photos…Love it

Awesome awesome awesome! Great photos!

Whoa.
These are awesome!

http://blogs.msdn.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-01-37-38-metablogapi/6036.DSC04645_5F00_2DE0FC72.jpg

Wow!!!! awesome..

Totally awesome! What a fantastic collection!