Clouds
The 3 Major Cloud Formations
Cirriform
Stratiform
Cumuliform
Cirriform
These clouds are thin, wispy, and are composed of ice crystals rather than water droplets. They usually bring windy weather. Cirriform clouds are high clouds.
Cirrus
Cirrus clouds are thin, wispy clouds. (High Clouds, windy weather)
Cirrocumulus
Usually small puffs of cloud that are close together and in long lines. (high clouds, windy weather)
Cirrostratus
Thin clouds that usually let the sunlight or moonlight shine through. (high clouds, windy weather)
Stratiform
Clouds that are grayish in color, they cover most or all of the sky, rarely are they broken in individual clouds.
Altostratus
Clouds that are associated with changing weather. (Middle Clouds)
Altocumulus
Clouds that usually indicate settled weather. (Middle Clouds)
Cumuliform
Clouds that are massive and rounded usually with a flat base and limited horizontal extent but often billowing upward to great heights.
Stratocumulus
A low hanging lumpy clouds. (Low clouds, usually accompanied by small amounts of precipitation.
Nimbostratus
Dark, low hanging clouds. (usually accompanied by light to moderately falling precipitation)
Cumulus
Puffy clouds that usually look like a fluffy cotton ball.
Cumulonimbus
A dense towering vertical cloud associated with thunderstorms.
FOG!
There are 4 different kinds of fog. Radiation Fog is the result of the ground losing heat through radiation, usually at night. Advection Fog is when warm, moist air moves horizontally over a cold surface, such as snow-covered ground or a cold ocean current. Upslope Fog is created by adiabatic cooling when humid air climbs a topographic slope. Evaporation Fog is when water vapor is added to cold air that is already near saturation.