looks like a piece of floating cotton life span of around 40 Cumulus minutes thunderstorm cloud forms by Cumulus cloud growth Cumulonimbus convective updrafts sometimes at speeds of over 50 knots Lenticular A lens shaped cloud Cloud Mammatus baggy clouds Clouds seen after thundersttorms can mean tornadoes Contrails Jet produced clouds trail of water vapor Nacreous soft pearly looking Clouds Great Cloud page Great Cloud book is "The cloud book: how to understand the skies" by Richard Hamblyn Clouds symbols Phenomena There are many weather phenomena here they are the major ones Phenomena Name Description occur when light is refracted to produce an image of an object or the Mirages sky where it is not. Like rainbows, haloes are formed around the Sun due to moisture Haloes being refracted from the rays in the upper atmosphere. Sun’s Belt of occurs during dusty evenings when a band of pinkish or brownish sky Venus will appear between the sky and the horizon. Aurora charged particles from the Sun that have reached the upper Earth’s Borealis atmosphere and become excited Mammatus are often associated with a storm front Clouds luminous plasma that appears like fire on objects, such as the masts of St Elmo’s ships or lightning rods, in an area that is electrically charged during a Fire thunderstorm Green Ray occurs very briefly before total sunset and after sunrise. A fire rainbow is an extremely rare phenomenon that occurs only Fire Rainbow when the sun is high allowing its light to pass through high-altitude cirrus clouds with a high content of ice crystals.
Cumulus looks like a piece of floating cotton life span of around 40 minutes Cumulonimbus thunderstorm cloud forms by Cumulus cloud growth convective updrafts sometimes at speeds of over 50 knots Lenticular Cloud A lens shaped cloud Mammatus Clouds baggy clouds seen after thundersttorms can mean tornadoes Contrails Jet produced clouds trail of water vapor Nacreous Clouds soft pearly looking Great Cloud page Great Cloud book is "The cloud book: how to understand the skies" by Richard Hamblyn Clouds symbols Phenomena There are many weather phenomena here they are the major ones Phenomena Name Description Mirages occur when light is refracted to produce an image of an object or the sky where it is not. Haloes Like rainbows, haloes are formed around the Sun due to moisture being refracted from the Sun’s rays in the upper atmosphere. Belt of Venus occurs during dusty evenings when a band of pinkish or brownish sky will appear between the sky and the horizon. Aurora Borealis charged particles from the Sun that have reached the Earth’s upper atmosphere and become excited Mammatus Clouds are often associated with a storm front St Elmo’s Fire luminous plasma that appears like fire on objects, such as the masts of ships or lightning rods, in an area that is electrically charged during a thunderstorm Green Ray occurs very briefly before total sunset and after sunrise. Fire Rainbow A fire rainbow is an extremely rare phenomenon that occurs only when the sun is high allowing its light to pass through high-altitude cirrus clouds with a high content of ice crystals.
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