Cloud Identification
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Cloud Identific
ation
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High Clouds
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• High
• Thin, whispy, feather-like
• Made of ice crystals
• May have been blown off top of cumulonimbus
Cirrus
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•High
•Thin but puffy
•Often in wave-like patterns
•Ice
•Sign of turbulant winds
•Fast moving
Cirrocumulus
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More Examples of Cirrocumulus Clouds
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Middle Altitude Clouds
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•Middle altitudes
•Puffy, patchy
•Often in rows to form “cloud streets”
•Often occur in advance of a storm
Altocumulus
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More Examples of Altocumulus Clouds
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•Middle altitudes
•Light grey
•Uniform
•Covers most of sky
•Water droplets
•May indicate changing wind and weather
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More Examples of Altostratus Clouds
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Low Altitud
e Clouds
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•Low
•Puffy, fluffy
•Looks like cotton balls, cauliflower
•Fair-weather clouds
•Flat bottoms
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•Low
•Light or dark grey
•Uniform
•Covers most of sky
•Fog is a stratus cloud
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More Examples of Stratus Clouds
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•Low but towering
•May have anvil shape on top
•Storm clouds
•May have thunder, hail, lightening or tornadoes
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More Examples of Cumulonimbus Clouds
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Some other Cool Cloud Types:Lenticular Clouds • Form at high
altitudes and are generally aligned at right angles to the wind. Where stable moist air flows over a mountain or a range of mountains, a series of large-scale standing waves may form on the downwind side. Lenticular clouds sometimes form at the crests of these waves
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More Lenticular Clouds
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Wave CloudsThese clouds are formed between two layers of air, with different densities, traveling at different speeds. Therefore, if a warm, less dense layer exists over a layer of colder, denser air, and the wind shear across the two layers is strong enough, eddies will develop along the boundary.
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Awesome Clouds!!
Go forth and seek clouds!!!!