This ‘cloud waterfall’ shrouding the Flinders Ranges in the early morning is an orographic cloud, formed by moist air being forced up over a mountain range. As the air rises, it cools and condenses into a long, continuous cloud bank that hugs the terrain.
Spectacular Aurora australis viewed over the Northern Flinders Ranges in early May, looking south before dawn.
Learn more about aurora and subscribe to aurora alerts at the Bureau of Meterorology Australian Space Weather Forecasting Centre website.
High altitude convection cloud consisting mostly of ice crystals, Cirrocumulus floccus, at sunset during mid-summer.
On a wild stormy day for South Australia, with 423,000 lightning strikes hitting the state, this supercell rotating updraft thunderstorm formation was seen over Nilpena Station.
High altitude Cirrocumulus clouds are formed of supercooled water droplets and ice crystals which can diffract light, such as in this instance of lunar iridescence.
Vapour trails, or contrails, are high altitude linear clouds generated by engine exhaust or changes in air pressure from aircraft flight paths, composed primarily of ice crystals. Seen here crossing the path of a waning crescent moon during a colourful Flinders Ranges dawn in autumn.
