This document discusses different types of clouds and precipitation. It describes high, middle, and low clouds, including cirrus, altocumulus, stratus, stratocumulus, and nimbostratus clouds. It also explains different forms of precipitation like rain, snow, sleet, hail, freezing rain, and fog. Key cloud and precipitation formation processes are outlined, such as how water droplets form and fall as rain or ice crystals form and fall as snow or hail depending on temperature conditions.

1. By
Thomas Smalley

2.  Change in the temp when no heat is added or
taken away.
 This is called adiabatic temperature changes
 The wet adiabatic rate is always slower than
the dry adiabatic rate

3.  Elevated terrains such as mountains block .
flowing air.
 The mountains act like big walls or barriers.

4.  The boundary between colliding bodies
of warm and cold air.
 this happens when cold air acts like a
wall and blocks the warm air so the
warm air rises.

5.  Air lifting from air in the lower atmosphere.

6.  This happens when unequal heating of the
earths surface warms a pocket of air and
lowers the airs density.

7.  Stable conditions happen when air temperature
increases in height.
 This is called temperature inversion.

8.  The air above the ground particulate matter
serve as surfaces for water vapor.
 The particulate matter is called condensation
nuclei.

9.  The 3 types of clouds are cirrus, cumulus, and
stratus.
 Cirrus clouds are high white and thin.
Cumulus clouds are flat base clouds look like
rising domes or towers. Stratus clouds are
sheets or layers that cover most of the sky

10.  Made up of 3 clouds. Cirrus cirrostratus and
cirrocumulus.
 All high clouds are thin and white and most of
the time they are made of ice crystals.
High clouds

11.  The altocumulus cloud makes up the middle
clouds.
 They form grayish sheets that cover the sky
 Light snow or drizzle may come from these
clouds
Middle clouds

12.  The 3 low clouds are stratus stratocumulus and
nimbostratus.
 The nimbostratus clouds are our main
precipitation makers

13.  Some clouds do not fit into the 3 height
categories.
 They all are associated with unstable air

14.  There are no physical differences between fog
and clouds.
 Fog is defined as a cloud with its base low to
the ground

15.  It is cold precipitation that will freeze when it
hits a solid object

16. When air is 100 percent saturated and 100 percent
relative humidity many droplets form together
to form a rain drop.

17.  Rain is a liquid that falls from nimbostratus
clouds
 Snow occurs when temperatures are around 4
degrees Celsius if its around -5 degrees Celsius
the snow flakes join other flakes and form wet
and heavy snow.

18.  Sleet is the fall of small pieces of ice.
 Hail is bigger massive chunks of ice falling.
 Glaze is also know as freezing rain.
Falling hail Tennis ball size hail
Smashes car window