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CLOUDS

CLOUDS. CUMULUS. CHARACTERISTICS Puffy Vertical Growing Clouds Thick Looks like popcorn Form thunderstorms Cumulus – piled, heaped. STRATUS. CHARACTERISTICS: Stratus - Sheet like Low clouds Layered Covers large areas of the sky Blocks the sun “Covers” the earth. CIRRUS.

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CLOUDS

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  1. CLOUDS

  2. CUMULUS • CHARACTERISTICS • Puffy • Vertical Growing Clouds • Thick • Looks like popcorn • Form thunderstorms • Cumulus – piled, heaped

  3. STRATUS • CHARACTERISTICS: • Stratus - Sheet like • Low clouds • Layered • Covers large areas of the sky • Blocks the sun • “Covers” the earth

  4. CIRRUS • CHARACTERISTICS: • Highest Clouds • Wispy • Feathery • Cirrus – curly • Made of ice crystals

  5. CUMULONIMBUS • CHARACTERISTICS: • Thunderstorm Clouds • Produce Hail, Lightning, and Thunder • Anvil shaped • Can reach into the stratosphere • Nimbo - Rain

  6. NIMBOSTRATUS

  7. ALTO/CIRRO CLOUDS ALTO – MIDDLE CIRRO - HIGH

  8. ALTO CUMULUS

  9. ALTO STRATUS

  10. CIRROSTRATUS

  11. CIRROCUMULUS

  12. CONTRAILS

  13. ADIABATIC

  14. FOG 4 types: Radiation Fog – Forms over land due to cooling at night Advection Fog – Forms when warm air moves over cold land Steam Fog – When cool land air moves over a warm body of water. Slope Fog – When warm air moves up a slope and cools.

  15. NAME THAT CLOUD

  16. NAME THAT CLOUD

  17. NAME THAT CLOUD

  18. NAME THAT CLOUD

  19. THAT’S ALL

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