Cirrus clouds are very wispy and high up around 20,000 feet. They are usually white and not associated with rain. Cumulus clouds are the puffy clouds seen around 3,000 feet up on sunny days. Cumulonimbus clouds produce thunderstorms, lightning, tornadoes and bad weather around 1,000 feet up. They can flatten at the top into an anvil shape. Stratus clouds cover the whole sky in a fog-like formation up to 6,000 feet and sometimes produce light drizzle or sprinkles while appearing grey.
Clouds
What are clouds?
A cloud is a large collection of very tiny droplets of water or ice crystals. The droplets are so small and light that they can float in the air.
Why do clouds float?
A cloud is made up of liquid water droplets. A cloud forms when air is heated by the sun. As it rises, it slowly cools it reaches the saturation point and water condenses, forming a cloud. As long as the cloud and the air that its made of is warmer than the outside air around it, it floats!
There are 3 main types of clouds:
Cirrus or thin feathery clouds
Stratus or layered clouds
Cumulus or fluffy clouds
Cirrus Clouds
Are the most common of the
high clouds. They are composed of ice and are thin, wispy clouds blown in high winds into long streamers. Cirrus clouds are usually white and predict fair to pleasant weather. By watching the movement of cirrus clouds you can tell from which direction weather is approaching. When you see cirrus clouds, it usually indicates that a change in the weather will occur within 24 hours.
Stratus Clouds
are uniform grayish clouds that often cover the entire sky. They resemble fog that doesn't reach the ground. Light mist or drizzle sometimes falls out of these clouds.
Cumulus Clouds
are white, puffy clouds that look like pieces of floating cotton. Cumulus clouds are often called "fair-weather clouds". The base of each cloud is flat and the top of each cloud has rounded towers. When the top of the cumulus clouds resemble the head of a cauliflower, it is called cumulus congestus or towering cumulus. These clouds grow upward and they can develop into giant cumulonimbus clouds, which are thunderstorm clouds.
The Importance of Clouds
Clouds help regulate Earth's energy balance by reflecting and scattering solar radiation and by absorbing Earth's infrared energy.
Clouds are required for precipitation to occur and, hence are an essential part of the hydrologic cycle.
Clouds indicate what type of atmospheric processes are occurring (e.g., cumulus clouds indicate surface heating and atmospheric turbulence).
Clouds help redistribute extra heat from the equator toward the poles.
References
https://www.google.com/search?q=clouds&biw=1366&bih=624&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwixqOqjlu3NAhVHNpQKHbtGCE0Q_AUIBigB#imgrc=_
https://www.google.com/search?biw=1366&bih=624&tbm=isch&q=clouds+clipart&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwir8paml-3NAhXGkJQKHSrFAPUQhyYIHQ&dpr=1#imgrc=WZWIVB52x_MJRM%3A
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cloud_types
http://www.weatherwizkids.com/weather-clouds.htm
Clouds
What are clouds?
A cloud is a large collection of very tiny droplets of water or ice crystals. The droplets are so small and light that they can float in the air.
Why do clouds float?
A cloud is made up of liquid water droplets. A cloud forms when air is heated by the sun. As it rises, it slowly cools it reaches the saturation point and water condenses, forming a cloud. As long as the cloud and the air that its made of is warmer than the outside air around it, it floats!
There are 3 main types of clouds:
Cirrus or thin feathery clouds
Stratus or layered clouds
Cumulus or fluffy clouds
Cirrus Clouds
Are the most common of the
high clouds. They are composed of ice and are thin, wispy clouds blown in high winds into long streamers. Cirrus clouds are usually white and predict fair to pleasant weather. By watching the movement of cirrus clouds you can tell from which direction weather is approaching. When you see cirrus clouds, it usually indicates that a change in the weather will occur within 24 hours.
Stratus Clouds
are uniform grayish clouds that often cover the entire sky. They resemble fog that doesn't reach the ground. Light mist or drizzle sometimes falls out of these clouds.
Cumulus Clouds
are white, puffy clouds that look like pieces of floating cotton. Cumulus clouds are often called "fair-weather clouds". The base of each cloud is flat and the top of each cloud has rounded towers. When the top of the cumulus clouds resemble the head of a cauliflower, it is called cumulus congestus or towering cumulus. These clouds grow upward and they can develop into giant cumulonimbus clouds, which are thunderstorm clouds.
The Importance of Clouds
Clouds help regulate Earth's energy balance by reflecting and scattering solar radiation and by absorbing Earth's infrared energy.
Clouds are required for precipitation to occur and, hence are an essential part of the hydrologic cycle.
Clouds indicate what type of atmospheric processes are occurring (e.g., cumulus clouds indicate surface heating and atmospheric turbulence).
Clouds help redistribute extra heat from the equator toward the poles.
References
https://www.google.com/search?q=clouds&biw=1366&bih=624&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwixqOqjlu3NAhVHNpQKHbtGCE0Q_AUIBigB#imgrc=_
https://www.google.com/search?biw=1366&bih=624&tbm=isch&q=clouds+clipart&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwir8paml-3NAhXGkJQKHSrFAPUQhyYIHQ&dpr=1#imgrc=WZWIVB52x_MJRM%3A
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cloud_types
http://www.weatherwizkids.com/weather-clouds.htm
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2. CIRRUS CLOUDS
Cirrus clouds are the type of cloud that is very wispy and
large. Cirrus clouds usually do not associate with rain.
They are as high as 20,000 feet in the air. This kind of
cloud is usually white.
Cirrus Cloud
From Weather Wiz Kids
Small Cirrus
From Wiz kids
Wispy Cloud
From Cloud Types
3. CUMULUS CLOUDS
Did you know that the Cumulus cloud is the puffy clouds you
see? The Cumulus clouds may be 1,000 meters (about 3,000 ft)
high.
Cumulus Clouds from Wikipedia
4. THE CUMULUS CLOUD
SOMETIMES LOOK LIKE THIS:
The Cumulus cloud
mostly looks like a big
ball of a puffy clouds
all in one. The most
times you would
usually see a Cumulus
cloud is on a sunny
day.
Cumulus clouds the top right is from
Wikipedia bottom one from USA today
top left from USA today
5. CUMULONIMBUS
Cumulonimbus are thunderstorm clouds. Made by cumulus
clouds. They produce lightning, tornados and thunder. These
clouds mean bad weather. Cumulonimbus clouds are about 300
meters off the ground from there dark bases (or 1000 feet).
Large amounts of energy is made by the condensations of
water vapor inside the cumulonimbus cloud.Cumulonimbus top from
Cumulonimbus Pic
S’COOL
Cumulonimbus cloud from From Cloud Types
Wikipedia
6. CUMULONIMBUS
High winds can flatten the top of a cumulonimbus cloud.
When that happens it looks like a anvil like shape. The anvil
shaped cloud usually points in the way it is moving.
Cumulonimbus Cumulonimbus clouds are
cloud pic from
Weather Wiz bigger and more vertically
Cumulus pic
Kids made than cumulus. from Cloud
Cumulonimbus from Cloud Types
Types Classification
7. STRATUS CLOUDS
Stratus clouds are clouds that usually cover the whole sky.
They resemble fog, and are one of the “lower” clouds. They
can be up to 6,000 feet in the air. They sometimes produce a
slight drizzle or sprinkle. This type of cloud is mostly grey.
Stratus Cloud
From Weather Wiz Kids
Fog Another Stratus
From Cloud Types From Cloud Types