Clouds
Shelby Sorensen
Cirrocumulus
Is one of the three main genus-types of high-altitude tropospheric clouds. They usually occur at an altitude of 5 kilometers.
Cirrus
It is a thin, wispy cloud that is blown by high winds into long streamers. Blizzard and winter weather.
Cirrostratus
It is a high,very thin cloud. It is composed of ice-crystals. It is difficult to detect.
Alto Cumulus
They indicate settled weather. They are middle level clouds that are made of water droplets and appear as gray, puffy masses, sometimes rolled out in parallel waves or bands.
Alto Stratus
They Indicate changing weather. They usually cover the whole sky and has a grey or blue appearance. The sun or moon may shine through the cloud, but may appear fuzzy.
Stratus
They are uniform grayish clouds that often cover the entire sky. They resemble fog that does not reach the ground. Usually no precipitation falls from stratus clouds, but sometimes they may drizzle.
Stratocumulus
Stratocumulus clouds generally appear as a low, lumpy layer of clouds that is sometimes accompanied by weak intensity precipitation. Stratocumulus vary in color from dark gray to light gray
Nimbostratus
A thunderstorm is coming. Nimbostratus are dark, low-level clouds accompanied by light to moderately falling precipitation. Low clouds are primarily composed of water droplets
Cumulus
They are puffy clouds that sometimes look like pieces of floating cotton. The top of the cloud has rounded towers. When the top of the cumulus resembles the head of a cauliflower, it is called cumulus congestus or towering cumulus. These clouds grow upward, and they can develop into a giant cumulonimbus, which is a thunderstorm cloud.
Cumulonimbus
Is a type of cloud that is tall, dense, and involved in thunderstorms and other intense weather.
Fog~ clouds on the ground-> 4- types of fog
1. Radiation Fog~ results when the ground loses heat through radiation usually at night, the ground is warmer than the air as it warms the air and it increases the dew point when the air cools due to the lose of radiation the dew point is reached and a cloud or fog is formed.
2. Advection Fog~ when warm, moist air moves horizontally over a cold surface, such as snow ceased ground or a cold ocean current ( sea to land).
3. Upslope fog~ created by adiabatic cooling when humid air climbs a topographic slope.
4. Evaporation Fog~ when water vapor is added to cold air that is already near saturation.