12 of the world's most extraordinary and beautiful weather phenomena — and what makes them happen
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12 of the world's most extraordinary and beautiful weather phenomena — and what makes them happen
We can all identify bolts of lightning, rainbows and stormy skies, but what of some of the earth’s more unusual and most spectacular weather phenomena? Here, photographers explain the science behind their astounding images in an extract from ‘Royal Meteorological Society: Weather A–Z’.
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