Meteorology Collection

Paraselena. McMurdo Sound, 10. 30am, 20 June 1911
Medium: watercolour. Artist: E.A.Wilson (1872-1912). Expedition: British Antarctic Expedition 1910-13 (Terra Nova)

Whole Earth (Blue Marble 2000)
Whole Earth. Composite satellite image of Earth centred on the Americas. This is Blue Marble 2000, one of the most detailed Earth images ever made

Night falls over radio telescope dishes of the KAT-7 Array at the proposed South African site for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA)

Galapagos Admiralty map by Fitzroy Beagle
Admiralty map of Galapagos 1845 resulting from Captain Robert Fitzroys Beagle charts, overlain with a portion of a letter written by Fitzroy. Robert Fitzroy (b. 5 July 1805- d)

Paraselena 15 January 1911. 9. 30pm Cape Evans McMurdo Sound
Medium: watercolour. Artist: E.A.Wilson (1872-1912). Expedition: British Antarctic Expedition 1910-13 (Terra Nova)

Krakatoa sunsets, 1883 artworks
Krakatoa sunsets. Artwork of the spectacular red and orange sunsets caused in London, England, by the August 1883 eruption of Krakatoa, a volcano thousands of kilometres away in Indonesia

Aurora borealis (Northern Lights) seen over the Lyngen Alps, from Sjursnes, Ullsfjord, Troms, North Norway, Scandinavia, Europe

Frost-covered trees and Glastonbury Tor. Hoar frost covering three willow (Salix sp.) trees in a field on a farm. St Michaels Tower can be seen on the summit of Glastonbury Tor in the background

Snow-covered United Kingdom, January 2010. Satellite image of snow and ice (white) covering the UK during the cold spell in January 2010

Porthmeor Beach, St. Ives, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, Europe

UFO crash at Roswell, New Mexico
Irving Newton, Met. Officer at Roswell USAFB, New Mexico, holds debris of a supposed flying saucer found by rancher Mac Brazel, stated by the US Air Force to be a weather balloon

Aurora borealis, Druridge Bay, UK
Aurora borealis, Druridge Bay. Rare view of northern lights over Druridge Bay in Northumberland, UK

Cloud filled blue sky

Ogmore Castle, Bridgend, Wales, U. K
Ogmore Castle, Bridgend, Wales, U.K

Raining cats and dogs. Historical artwork of cats, dogs and pitchforks raining down on people in a town street. The saying raining cats and dogs is used when referring to a heavy downpour of rain

Suns rays breaking through clouds
Rays of the Sun breaking through clouds. The rays become visible when they emerge through gaps in cloud cover and scatter from dust particles or fine rain drops

Double rainbow over a lake surrounded by trees

Handley Page Halifax Met. 6
Handley Page Halifax Met.6 (RG778 XB-B) of 224 Squadron flying over Gibraltar, February 1950

KENTUCKY. USA. Fog at sunrise, Red River Gorge. Daniel Boone National Forest

Logging truck in Mississippi driving into the heart of a thunderstorm with an extreme tornado watch, United States of America, North America

Supercell thunderstorm, Kansas, USA C017 / 8422
Supercell thunderstorm forming over Sanford, Kansas, USA, at twilight. A supercell thunderstorm is a severe long-lived storm within which the wind speed and direction changes with height

Flood barrier, Netherlands
Flood barrier in Zeeland, Netherlands. This is part of the Deltaworks, which consists of dams, sluices, locks, dikes, and storm surge barriers

Northern Corries at dawn. View looking west just before sunrise across Coire an t-Sneachda (hollow area) to Coire Lochain. The ridge separating the two hollows is is the Fiacaill Ridge

Australia, satellite image
Australia. Satellite image of the Earth, set against a background of stars, centred on the island continent of Australia. North is at top. Clouds (white) are seen in the atmosphere

Aurora borealis and Moon over mountains and trees by a river. This coloured light display (the northern lights) is visible in the night sky at high latitudes

A Snow plough clearing a road
Snow plough clearing and gritting a road at the Cairnwell Pass in Scotland

Meteor shower over the Mississippi River, 1833
Remarkable meteor shower over the Mississippi River, 1833. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Tornadic supercell thunderstorm, USA
Tornadic supercell thunderstorm over fields. A supercell thunderstorm is a severe long-lived storm within which the wind speed and direction changes with height

Ezekiels vision of chariot in sky and a hand in the clouds holding out a book to him, c.614 BC. Bible: Ezekiel II:9

Alexander Friedman, Soviet cosmologist
Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman (1888-1925), Russian and Soviet cosmologist and mathematician. Friedman, who lived and worked in Leningrad, is considered the founder of modern cosmology

Coloured satellite image of Hurricane Hugo

Oak tree in mist
Oak tree (Quercus sp.) in mist. Photographed near the River Taw in Dartmoor, UK

Aurora borealis, corona, Muonio, Finland, Scandinavia, Europe

Household thermometer, with both Celsius and Fahrenheit scales. The reading of 21 degrees Celsius (70 degrees Fahrenheit) is normal room temperature

Hurricane Mitch. Coloured three-dimensional computer image, based on satellite data, of Hurricane Mitch (white cloud swirl, upper right). Mountainous areas of Central America (green) are brown

Snowflake research, 18th century

Sturminster Newton Mill and River Stour, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Icebergs in glacial lagoon at Jokulsarlon, Iceland, Polar Regions

View over Reykjavik from Hallgrimskirkja Church, Reykjavik, Iceland, Polar Regions

Hurricane Epsilon, ISS image
Hurricane Epsilon. International Space Station (ISS) image of hurricane Epsilon over the central Atlantic Ocean on 3rd December 2005

Aurora borealis (Northern Lights), Abisko, Lapland, Arctic Circle, Sweden, Scandinavia, Europe

Aurora borealis (Northern Lights) seen over a snow covered road, Troms, North Norway, Scandinavia, Europe

Lightning. Computer artwork of a lightning strike over water. Lightning occurs when a large electrical charge builds up in a cloud

Lightning in New Mexico, USA
Lightning. Night-time view of multiple bolts of lightning striking the ground. Lightning occurs when a large, electrical charge builds up in a cloud

Icebergs in glacial lagoon at Jokulsarlon, Iceland, Polar Regions

Wind sock, aerodrome, Belle Ile en Mer, Breton Islands, Morbihan, France, Europe

Tower of the Winds in Athens, ancient Greece
Tower of the Winds topped by a weathervane of Triton, and with sundials on the outer walls, ancient Athens. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Lightning striking in between Courthouse Butte and Bell Rock near Sedona, Arizona, United States of America, North America

Black rocks protruding through rough seas with stormy clouds, Crete, Greece

John Dalton, British chemist C017 / 7114
John Dalton (1766-1844), British chemist, physicist and meteorologist. Daltons atomic theory that explained chemical changes was published in A New System of Chemical Philosophy (1808)

Wind-blown tree. This unidentified tree has had its growth shaped by the strong prevailing coastal wind

St. Elmos fire on a sailing ship
Saint Elmos fire, an electrical phenomenon, on a ships masts. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

France-Agriculture-Wine-Weather
This picture taken on April 21, 2017, shows water being sprayed on a Chablis vineyard to protect it against freeze in Chablis near Auxerre, northern France

Summer lightning storm near Tuscon, Arizona, USA
Summer lightning storm near Tucson, Arizona, USA

Heart shape in clouds, conceptual image

Aurora borealis over trees by a river. This coloured light display (the northern lights) is visible in the night sky at high latitudes

Huge electrical storm, USA
Huge electrical storm. Long exposure photograph of lightning repeatedly striking the ground during a thunderstorm. Photographed near Denver International Airport, Colorado, USA, on 26th August 2009

Africa, night-day satellite image. This composite image of the Earth is set against a background of stars, and is centred on the continent of Africa. North is at top

Altocumulus undulatus clouds. This cloud formation consists of parallel bands of cumulus clouds. It occurs when a layer of altocumulus cloud is affected by wind shear

View over the River Corrib towards The Long Walk at dusk, Galway, County Galway, Ireland

Shafts of light at dusk over Wrynose pass and the Coniston hills from Ambleside, Lake District, England, UK. September 2015

World Flat projection map from composite of satellite images. Credit NASA: Science Earth Geology Oceanography

Mykines coastline at sunrise, Faroes, Denmark, Europe

Aurora Borealis over coniferous forest at night, Muonio, Northern Finland, Finland, Scandinavia, Europe

A sunset view from Orcas Island in the San Juan Islands of Washington looking across
View from Orcas Island, San Juan Islands, WA, looking across Puget Sound toward Vancouver Island

Reindeer herd C013 / 4885
Reindeer herd. Herd of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus). Photographed in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia

Storm clouds and sunshine, Kansas, United States of America, North America

Rainbow over sand dunes. This arching spectrum of colours is seen when sunlight from behind the observer is reflected and refracted by rain in front

Lightning in Rincon Mountains, Tucson
Lightning. Multiple cloud-to-ground lightning strikes. Photographed in the Rincon Mountains near Tucson, Arizona

Lightning storm over Tucson, Arizona
Summer lightning storm over the Saguaro National Monument, Tucson, Arizona, USA

1843 Captain Robert Fitzroy Darwins capn
A portion of a letter written by Captain (later Vice-Admiral) Robert Fitzroy (b. 5 July 1805- d. 30 April 1865)

Noctilucent cloud over trees. This type of cloud, also known as polar mesospheric, is visible only in deep twilight and is seen mostly during the summer

Red post box in the snow. Photographed by a wood near Ballater, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, in February

Snowflake, light micrograph. This form of snow crystal is known as a dendritic or stellar snowflake

The Great Lakes, ISS image C016 / 3870
The Great Lakes. View from the International Space Station (ISS) of the Great Lakes of the USA and Canada. North is towards upper right. Here, the ISS is over a point to the southeast of Nova Scotia

Morning mist over farmland. Morning mist, or inversion fog, over farmland and woods. Photographed in the Dee valley, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK, in September

Country road in winter. Photographed in Exmoor, UK

Dalkey Island With Rainbow, Dublin, Ireland

Storm over Luskentyre Beach, West Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

South Shields, Tyne And Wear, England; Dark Skies Over Beach With Fence

Blue iceberg, blue ice face of Mendenhall Glacier, elevated view, Visitor Centre, Tongass National Forest, Juneau, Alaska, United States of America, North America

Dramatic cloud formations over landscape, near Vik Y Myrdal, South Iceland, Polar Regions

Mammatus or mammatocumulus clouds form on the underside of thunderstorms, Oklahoma, United States of America, North America

Barral & Bixios meteorological flight
On July 27, 1850, two French agronomists, Jacques Alexandre Bixio and Jean Augustin Barral, made an ascent by a hydrogen-filled balloon from the garden of the Paris Observatory

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Meteorology is the captivating study of Earth's ever-changing atmosphere, unraveling its mysteries and unveiling breathtaking phenomena. From the mesmerizing sight of our Whole Earth, resembling a radiant Blue Marble in 2000, to the Galapagos Admiralty map by Fitzroy Beagle that navigates us through uncharted meteorological territories. Intriguing moments like Paraselena at McMurdo Sound on a crisp morning in June 1911 transport us to ethereal realms where ice crystals create enchanting halos around the sun. The Krakatoa sunsets captured in delicate artworks from 1883 remind us of nature's power and beauty intertwined. Paraselena once again enchants our senses as we journey back to January 1911 at Cape Evans in McMurdo Sound, where shimmering lights dance across the sky during an unforgettable night. Witnessing the Aurora borealis painting vibrant streaks over the Lyngen Alps fills our hearts with awe from Sjursnes, Ullsfjord, Troms in North Norway. Frost-covered trees glistening under winter's touch alongside Glastonbury Tor evoke a sense of tranquility amidst chilly temperatures. The Snow-covered United Kingdom transforms into a magical wonderland during January 2010 when every corner becomes adorned with nature's delicate white blanket. Porthmeor Beach invites us to St. Ives in Cornwall, England—a coastal paradise where meteorology meets stunning landscapes—offering endless inspiration for those who seek solace by the sea. A cloud-filled blue sky acts as nature's canvas upon which she paints her masterpieces day after day. While exploring meteorological wonders on Earth, let us not forget tales that captivate imaginations such as Roswell's UFO crash site nestled within New Mexico’s vast desert expanse—an enigma waiting to be unraveled by scientific inquiry. Finally, witnessing sunlight piercing through clouds reminds us that even amidst turbulence, there is always hope and beauty to be found.