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Lightning over Oradea, Romania A large tornado touches down in a grassy field under dark clouds, with a National Severe Storms Laboratory field command vehicle parked on the roadside in the foreground. Illustration showing ten cloud types at different altitudes above the ground: cirrus, cirrocumulus, and cirrostratus at high elevations; altocumulus and altostratus at mid-levels; nimbostratus, stratocumulus, stratus, cumulus, and the towering cumulonimbus clouds at lower to very high elevations, with a plane for scale. Contrail of a four-engined jet airliner rainbow Two-part diagram explaining how to estimate lightning distance by timing thunder, and how thunder is heard differently based on location. The top section shows sound waves from a lightning flash reaching an observer, with a scale indicating that thunder is heard about three seconds after the flash for each kilometer, or five seconds for each mile, up to five kilometers or three miles. The bottom section depicts two people in cars at different distances from the main lightning channel and a branc Satellite view of Hurricane Hugo, showing a large, swirling white cloud mass with a distinct eye approaching the South Carolina coast near Charleston.
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Lightning over Oradea, Romania
Lightning over the outskirts of Oradea, Rom., during the thunderstorm of August 17,...
Mircea Madau
tornado tracking
Tornado-tracking activities under way with a field command vehicle from the National...
Mike Coniglio—National Severe Storms Laboratory/NOAA
cloud types
Different types of clouds form at different heights.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Contrail of a four-engined jet airliner
Such cloud streamers are observed behind an airplane, and result when water vapor...
Adrian Pingstone
rainbow
Rainbow over South Park, Colorado.
©Denver Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau
lightning and thunder
(Top) As shown in the chart, the elapsed time between seeing a flash of lightning...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Satellite image of a hurricane, North Atlantic Ocean
A digitally enhanced satellite image of a hurricane in the western North Atlantic...
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Department of Commerce