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According to the World Meteorological Organization's International Cloud Atlas , more than 100 types of clouds exist. The many variations. I'm sharing some of those types with you. following are the 5 basic types depending on their general shape and height in the sky. Click here to learn more!!
1. Cumulus
Cumulus clouds are the clouds you learned to draw at an early age and that serve as the symbol of all clouds. Their tops are rounded, puffy, and a brilliant white when sunlit, while their bottoms are flat and relatively dark.
2. Stratus
Stratus clouds hang low in the sky as a flat, featureless, uniform layer of grayish cloud. They resemble fog that hugs the horizon (instead of the ground). Stratus clouds are seen on dreary, overcast days and are associated with light mist or drizzle
3. Cumulonimbus
Cumulonimbus clouds are one of the few clouds that span the low, middle, and high layers. They resemble the cumulus clouds from which they grow, except they rise into towers with bulging upper portions that look like cauliflower. Cumulonimbus cloud tops are usually always flattened in the shape of an anvil or plume. Their bottoms are often hazy and dark.
4. Cirrocumulus
Cirrocumulus clouds are small, white patches of clouds often arranged in rows that live at high altitudes and are made of ice crystals. Called "cloudlets," the individual cloud mounds of cirrocumulus are much smaller than that of altocumulus and stratocumulus and often look like grains.
5. Cirrostratus
Cirrostratus clouds are transparent, whitish clouds that veil or cover nearly the entire sky. A dead giveaway to distinguishing cirrostratus is to look for a "halo" (a ring or circle of light) around the sun or moon. The halo is formed by the refraction of the light on the ice crystals in the clouds, similarly to how sundogs form but in an entire circle rather than just on either side of the sun.
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👀for the Love of Cloud Watching
Nature is the best thing ever happened to me. My inner child loves watching Clouds whenever I look up at the sky, I can see my whole life in those layers of clouds and shades of nature. In those shades I find my peace and calmness. It gives stillness to my life. They are my Friend who empowers me every single day and gifts me the colors of life.
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