The Boeing 747-8 cargo plane pilot has seen thunderstorms, shooting stars and sunsets from up above the clouds and has looked down on mountaintops, carpets of cloud and cities lit up at night. The incredible pictures give a glimpse of the view from the pilots are treated to every day. Here: Shooting stars over India. (Photo by Christiaan van Heijst/Caters News Agency)

“Misty Rainbow”. A rainbow appears over tea fields in Tangerang Selatan, Indonesia. (Photo by Dani Agus Purnomo/Royal Meteorological Society’s Weather Photographer of the Year Awards)

A woman takes a picture as a super moon, known as the Blue Moon, rises above Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on August 30, 2023. (Photo by Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters)

A young girl tries to catch snow on her tongue near the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, before the start of a wreath-laying ceremony honoring the legacy of the late civil rights leader in Washington, DC on January 15, 2024. The ceremony is being held to honor the civil rights leader on the anniversary of his birthday. (Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP Photo)

A couple share a kiss at the “Purple Rain” installation at the Lycée Jacques-Decour on August 02, 2020 in Paris, France. Part of Festival Paris l'Eté, the installation by Pierre Ardouvin is a tribute to the song by Prince and allows visitors to role play while equipped with umbrellas and accompanied by the song. (Photo by Kiran Ridley/Getty Images)

School cheerleaders wearing protective masks pose for a photo as fellow students arrive for classes on the first day of school in Miami-Dade County at Barbara Goleman Senior High School, in Miami, Florida, August 23, 2021. (Photo by Marco Bello/Reuters)

A man crosses Canal Street in the wind and rain from Hurricane Isaac August 29, 2012. (Photo by David J. Phillip/Associated Press)

The annual calendar features stunning shots of lighting, cloud formations and the aurora australis. Hundreds of photographers from every Australian state and territory submitted images to the Bureau of Meteorology for selection in the year’s calendar, with only the best chosen to represent the full spectrum of Australian weather. Here: April. A path through the clouds between Townsville and Richmond, Queensland. (Photo by Captain Victoria Harrison/Australian Bureau of Meteorology)