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Cloud Types
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What are clouds?• A cloud is made up of tiny water droplets and/or ice crystals, a snowflake is a collection of many ice crystals, and rain is just liquid water.
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Cloud Names•Names of specific types of clouds are created by combining the name of the cloud's shape with the name of the cloud's height.
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CloudsThere are 3 main types of clouds:• Cumulus or fluffy clouds• Stratus or layered clouds• Cirrus or thin feathery clouds
Cumulus CirrusStratus
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Cirrus
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Cirrus•The word cirrus comes from a Latin word and means a tuft or curl of hair. Cirrus clouds are very wispy and feathery looking.
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Cirrus• The long stringy cirrus clouds
are called "mares' tails."
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Cirrus Clouds• Cirrus generally occur in fair
weather and point in the direction of air movement at their elevation.
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Cirrus Clouds
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Low Clouds = Stratus
•Stratus•Stratocumulus•Nimbostratus
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Stratus Clouds Low clouds are of made of water droplets. However, when temperatures are cold enough, these clouds may also contain ice particles and snow.
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Stratus Clouds
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Stratus Clouds
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StratusThe 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.
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Stratus Clouds
• Stratus Clouds stretch across the sky in low, large flat layers. They resemble fog, but they do not reach the ground. They often produce mist or drizzle.
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Vertically Developed Cumulus Clouds
• Fair weather cumulus have the appearance of floating cotton and have a lifetime of 5-40 minutes. The word cumulus comes from the Latin word for a heap or a pile. Cumulus clouds are puffy in appearance. They look like large cotton balls.
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Cumulus Clouds
• Harmless fair weather cumulus clouds can later develop into towering cumulonimbus clouds associated with powerful thunderstorms.
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Cumulus• The clouds that produce heavy thunderstorms in summer are a form of cumulus clouds called cumulonimbus. Cumulonimbus clouds may extend upward for hundreds of meters.
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Fair Weather Cumulus
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Writing Activity:•Write a paragraph about one type of cloud. Include 3 or more facts about the cloud.