I am sure you look up to the sky every day and see the same old cloud formation – which may also include contrails and jet streams.

However, in this post I will show you some of the world’s rarest photographs (you can say it that way as these clouds don’t form every day and not everyone is lucky enough to photograph them).

Be sure to check the photographers out:

 

 

Lenticular cloud, Mt. Fuji, Japan – Source Unknown

 

Asperatus formation, Canterbury, New Zealand –wittap

 

Roll cloud hang glider, Queensland, Australia – Mark Watson

 

Mammatus over Quebec – Michel Filion

 

Shelf cloud, North Dakota – Michael Carlson – Photography

 

Nacreous clouds, McMurdo Station, Antarctica – Alan R. Light

 

Lenticulars, Mt. Rainier, Washington – Tim Thompson

 

Cumulonimbus, Nelson, BC – Robert Neufeld

 

Lenticular UFO, Patagonia – Source Unknown

 

Shelf cloud, Cape Cod, MA – Anthony Quintano

 

Altocumulus from the ISS – Cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and the Russian Space Agency Press

 

Mammatus, Manhattan – Skellig2008

 

Noctilucent clouds over the Tibetan Plateau – NASA Goddard Photo and Video

 

Morning glories, Queensland, Australia – Mick Petroff

 

Lenticular funnel, Palm Springs, CA – Florian

 

Mammatus storm, Norman, OK – Angelyn Hobson

 

Altocumulus, Layton, NJ – Nicholas_T

 

Mammatus, Salem, OR – happy1nva

 

Lenticular arcs, Seattle – brucedene

Cloud iridescence, Arizona – benafiaskys

 

Stratus clouds, Arenal Volcano, Costa Rica – REDFISH1223

 

Lenticular ribbon, Tarurua Range, New Zealand – Chris Picking

 

Noctilucent clouds, Viljandimaa, Estonia – Martin Koitmäe

 

Glories and vortices, Baja – NASA Goddard Photo and Video

 

Cumulonimbus, Beverley, England – l.bailey_beverley

 

Vortex cloud, Wallops Island, VA – NASA Langley Research Center (NASA-LaRC)