Cloud Identification

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Cloud Identification
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High Clouds
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Cirrus

• High
• Thin, whispy, feather-like
• Made of ice crystals
• May have been blown off top of cumulonimbus

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More Examples of Cirrus Clouds
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Cirrocumulus

• High
• Thin but puffy
• Often in wave-like patterns
• Ice
• Sign of turbulant winds
• Fast moving

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More Examples of Cirrocumulus Clouds
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Middle Altitude Clouds
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Altocumulus

• Middle altitudes
• Puffy, patchy
• Often in rows to form cloud streets
• Often occur in advance of a storm

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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 Altitude Clouds
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• Low
• Puffy, fluffy
• Looks like cotton balls, cauliflower
• Fair-weather clouds
• Flat bottoms

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More Examples of Cumulus Clouds
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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 TypesLenticular 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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Still more..incredible!!
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Wave Clouds
These 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!!!!