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Clouds form through condensation when water vapor in the air turns to liquid water or ice crystals. There are many types of clouds classified by their color, shape, size and location in the atmosphere including stratus, cumulus, nimbostratus and cirrus clouds.

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Clouds

Clouds form through condensation when water vapor in the air turns to liquid water or ice crystals. There are many types of clouds classified by their color, shape, size and location in the atmosphere including stratus, cumulus, nimbostratus and cirrus clouds.

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How do clouds form?

When water vapor in the air becomes liquid


water or ice crystals.
Condensation
When the water vapor reaches the high
cool air, it turns into water drops that form
the clouds.
This is condensation and is part of the
water cycle.
TYPES OF CLOUDS
There are many types of clouds.
Clouds are classified by:
1. Their color
2. Their shape and size
3. Where they form in the atmosphere.
STRATUS
Sheets of low, grey clouds that bring light
snow, rain, or drizzle.
FOG
A cloud in contact with the ground. Fog is a
type of Stratus cloud.
Stratus Clouds
Stratus
The word stratus comes
from the Latin word that
means "to spread out."
Stratus clouds are
horizontal, layered clouds
that stretch out across the
sky like a blanket.
NIMBOSTRATUS
(“Rainy day clouds”)
Thicker layer than stratus clouds that completely block
out the sun. They cause steady rain or snow.
Stratocumulus
•Similar to cumulus
clouds in form and
composition,
stratocumulus clouds are
textured and puffy, but
also joined into a semi-
continuous layer.
•Stratocumulus clouds
usually form from
cumulus or
stratus clouds
Types of Clouds
Altocumulus clouds are middle level clouds
that are made of water droplets.
They appear as gray, puffy masses, and
sometimes roll out in parallel waves or bands.
If you see these clouds on a warm, humid
summer morning it probably means
thunderstorms may happen later in the
afternoon.
Altocumulus Clouds
(“Layers of bread rolls”)
Types of Clouds
Altostratus clouds are gray or blue-
gray middle level clouds.
(“The boring clouds”)
These clouds usually fill up the entire
sky.
Below 6,500 ft. it’s stratus
Between 6,500 and 23,000 ft. it’s
altostratus
Altostratus Clouds
CUMULUS
White and puffy clouds that usually
mean good weather.
CUMULUS
Cumulus clouds are fun to watch.
People often see “pictures” in the sky
made by Cumulus clouds.
Fair Weather Cumulus
CUMULONIMBUS
Dark, towering clouds that are also called
“thunderheads”. These clouds produce
heavy rain, thunder, and lighting.
CUMULONIMBUS
Often referred to as Nimbus.
CIRRUS
(“Delicate cloud streaks”)
Thin, featherlike clouds that are made of ice crystals high in
the atmosphere. Usually means a change in the weather is
coming. Cirrus clouds are the highest of all clouds
Cirrostratus Clouds
Cirrostratus clouds are thin
and sheet like clouds.
They often cover the entire sky.
They are so thin that you can
see the sun and moon through
them.
Cirrostratus clouds are difficult
to spot and appear as
a pale, milky lightening of the
sky.
Cirrostratus clouds never block
out the sun
completely, but rather produce
a variety of optical
effects.
Cirrocumulus clouds
Cirrocumulus clouds look
like small, rounded white
puffs or blobs.
The small waves, or ripples
in the cirrocumulus
sometimes resemble the
scales of a fish.
If the sky is filled with
cirrocumulus clouds it is
sometimes referred to as a
"mackerel sky."
CIRRUS CLOUDS
What does the color of a
cloud tell you?
The color of a cloud lets you know how
much water it contains.
White clouds have little water.
Dark clouds usually mean
heavy rain.
Grey clouds can mean
snow or rain.

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