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Caption: Asperitas clouds spotted over Snowdonia National park on Sunday 13th November 2016 (Credit: Patrick Hickie)
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New cloud type spotted over Snowdonia
14 November 2016

These rare, rippling clouds resemble ocean waves in the sky, but what are they called and how do they form?

Ice crystals form and branch out, forming these beautiful frost patterns
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What causes these beautiful frost patterns?
10 November 2016

Scraping the frost from your car windscreen was a pleasant surprise on this occasion, but how do these patterns form?

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Widespread flooding hits mainland Europe
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Mongolian milk production
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Cold weather disaster kills more than 800,000 farm animals in Mongolia
22 April 2016
sinusoidal thin contrails
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Rare sighting of sinusoidal thin contrails
07 April 2016

The Royal Meteorological Soceity received these photographs this week, sent in from Tofino, on the west of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, asking for an explanation of how they are formed. 

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Book review: 30-second Meteorology
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28 March 2016
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Book review: Weather in 30 seconds
23 February 2016
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08 February 2016

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