© Rodney Hale

Houghton Conquest, Bedford, Central Bedfordshire MK45, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Latitude: 52° 4' 5'' N

Longitude: 0° 28' 17'' W

25 August 2012 1436 (Local Time)
Camera direction: towards NW

Image P/S code: S.10.3

Image I.D.: 5586

C_L = 9, C_M = 6, C_H = 0

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  Extensive line of Cumulus congestus, Cumulonimbus calvus and capillatus incus praecipitatio

  The image shows a flanking line of Cumulonimbus calvus and Cumulus congestus in front of a line of mature Cumulonimbus capillatus incus cells. Distant precipitation is falling from the latter line.

  Ragged patches of Cumulus fractus are in the foreground, as is Stratocumulus and Altocumulus formed from the spreading of parts of Cumulonimbus. 

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  © Rodney Hale
  Houghton Conquest, Bedford, Central Bedfordshire MK45, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  Latitude: 52° 4' 5'' N
  Longitude: 0° 28' 17'' W
  25 August 2012 1436 (Local Time)
  
  
  Camera direction: towards NW
  C_L = 9, C_M = 6, C_H = 0
  Image P/S code: S.10.3
  Image I.D.: 5586
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  Unsettled conditions as a low pressure system moved eastward across Wales and central England, UK 

  © Crown Copyright
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  Conditionally unstable and high moisture content from the surface to the tropopause at 268 hPa 

  © University of Wyoming
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  Cumulonimbus cells over southern and central England, UK
  © EUMETSAT, 2012
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  Cumulonimbus capillatus incus praecipitatio

  This image shows the strong vertical extent of a rising tower of Cumulonimbus cloud. The top is lit by the evening Sun, rendering the left-hand side bright white, while the remainder of the cloud is darker. The cloud top to the right is fibrous, indicating the species capillatus, with an anvil shearing off to the right – the supplementary feature incus. The top of the cloud (as seen from this perspective) is losing sharpness as this cell transitions from Cumulus congestus to Cumulonimbus. Beneath the cloud, the Sun is lighting up a strong precipitation shaft - the supplementary feature praecipitatio. The dark grey cloud almost surrounding the powerful convective cloud is Stratocumulus, while the white fibrous cloud to the upper left is Cirrus fibratus.

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  © Frann Brothers
  Terlingua, Texas, United States of America
  Latitude: 29° 19' 18'' N
  Longitude: 103° 36' 58'' W
  21 August 2014 1800 (Local Time)
  
  
  Camera direction: towards NW
  C_L = 9, C_M = 0, C_H = 1
  Image P/S code: P.10.3
  Image I.D.: 4752