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Cloud Presentation. By: Brandon Bond. Basic Cloud Types. Cumulus Puffy, white clouds with flat bottoms Stratus Form in layers Cirrus Thin, feathery, white clouds. Cumulus Clouds. Formed when warm air rises. Look like piles of cotton balls.

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Cloud Presentation

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  1. Cloud Presentation By: Brandon Bond

  2. Basic Cloud Types • Cumulus • Puffy, white clouds with flat bottoms • Stratus • Form in layers • Cirrus • Thin, feathery, white clouds

  3. Cumulus Clouds • Formed when warm air rises. • Look like piles of cotton balls. • Generally indicate fair weather but, when they get larger they produce thunderstorms. • Cumulonimbus clouds produce thunderstorms

  4. Cirrus Clouds • Form when the wind is strong. • Look like thin, feathery white clouds. • If they get thicker then they indicate that a change in the weather is coming.

  5. Stratus Clouds • Formed from a gentle lifting of a large body of air into the atmosphere. • Look like white layers in the sky. • Weather can be foggy and/or light to heavy continuous rain. • Nimbostratus clouds are dark clouds that produce the rain.

  6. Altitudes • Clouds are also classified by the altitude at which they form. • High • Begins with prefix cirro- • Made up of ice crystals due to cold temperatures. • Middle • Begins with the prefix alto- • Made up of water drops and ice crystals • Low • No prefixes. • Made up of water drops.

  7. Cumulus Clouds Cumulus clouds and sandstone rocks. Earthscience World image bank

  8. Cumulus clouds over a plain. EarthscienceWorld image bank

  9. Stratocumulus clouds over Monument Valley in Arizona. Earthscience World image bank

  10. Stratocumulus clouds over Idaho. Earthscience World image bank

  11. Cirrus in long parallel bands GLOBE Cloud Exploration

  12. Cirrus clouds look like white delicate feathers. GLOBE Cloud Exploration

  13. Cirrocumulus Clouds http://www.eo.ucar.edu/kids/sky/images/7066

  14. cirrocumulus cloud has small-scale ripples GLOBE Cloud Exploration

  15. Stratus clouds over Lake Superior GLOBE Cloud Exploration

  16. Fog is a stratus cloud. GLOBE Cloud Exploration

  17. Cirrostratus clouds are a thin, transparent, whitish layer made up of ice crystals. GLOBE Cloud Exploration

  18. Cirrostratus clouds in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado GLOBE Cloud Exploration

  19. Altocumulus clouds look like waves of the sea with white and grey coloring and shadows. GLOBE Cloud Exploration

  20. Altocumulus clouds are almost always water droplets, and rarely ice crystals. GLOBE Cloud Exploration

  21. Nimbostratus with mountain rain and snow showers GLOBE Cloud Exploration

  22. Nimbostratus is a very dark and grey colored cloud layer that blots out the light of the sun. GLOBE Cloud Exploration

  23. Altostratus clouds form a bluish or greyish veil that totally or partially covers the sky. GLOBE Cloud Exploration

  24. The light of the sun can be seen through Altocumulus clouds but there is no halo effect. GLOBE Cloud Exploration

  25. Cumulonimbus are very large, heavy and dense clouds GLOBE Cloud Exploration

  26. Cumulonimbus clouds have a generally flat, dark surface with very tall and large tops like the shape of a massive mountain and are associated with thunder and lightning. GLOBE Cloud Exploration

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