Cloud commentary

Commentary for clouds

Clouds are objects in the sky. They tend to appear in high altitudes, varying on size and shape and color, which are intrinsic in appearance

Clouds have different species such as cumulus, cumulonimbi, cirrus, stratus, and other clouds. They come in different heights from stratus to cirrus clouds

Clouds of higher altitudes can reach as far as 75,000 feet

Image 1: Classification of cloud

Commentary: Cumulus

The cumulus is a low level cloud with heaps on top and flattened base. It is predominantly white in color with gray base. Often the cloud is opaque, obscuring the sun’s heat, thus blocking the air. The cumulus is subdivided into three groups, humilis, mediocris, and

congestus. Humilis is low level, mediocris is medium level, and congestus is high level, thus forming the cumulonimbus cloud

Image 2: Different types of cumulus clouds

From left to right: humilis, mediocris, congestus, & fractus

Humilis-Means when they are low

Mediocris-Mean when they are higher

Congestus-Means being towered vertically in by formation

Fractus-Being fragmented

Peculate structures

Sometimes they have virga

Cirrocumulus

Cirrocumulus Clouds

Cirrocumuli are clouds which are less higher than the cirrus clouds, but equals to the cumulonimbus top. They appear as floccules, which they look like cotton sort of. They are

white colored

Commentary: Cirrostratus

Cirrostratus clouds is a dense layer of clouds containing a haze, that forms a halo in the sun

Commentary-Cirrus spisatus

Spissatus clouds are dense cirrus clouds tht (they have that) the color white of their own. They are far now known the highest cloud genera, which exceeds to 45,000 feet high. They

appear in very high altitudes. They can obscure sun’s lightenness

Commentary-Altostratus

Altostrati are often high level clouds with obscurance. They have no light to the sun due to greyish appearance. The sun’s heat is blocked by the clouds

Commentary-Altocumulus

They are higher levelled clouds compared that of a cumulus at a lower level, and comes in floccules

Comn.-Altocumulus lenticularis

They are called lenticular cloudforms because their form is shaped like a lens

Comment-Cumulonimbus

Cumulonimbi are tall, towering clouds with grey bases. These clouds are enormous in size. They produce precipitation, thunder/lightning, tornadoes and even meso-cyclones

Comment-Stratus

Strati are dense clouds that obscure the heat of the Sun. It has a haze/fog, a mist or composed of liquid crystals

Comment-Cumulonimbises as a mistake of cumulonimbuses

Comment-Stratocumulus

These fluffy clouds are notable for their extreme weather and different growth

Comment-What is vertical formation

In real life, the matter of gas is cloud, when the cloud begins forming at a vertical state, it bulges a protrusion, thus called congestus. At the next stage the body of a cloud is many times taller than a building, taller than mount everest’s. In the final stage the cloud has

became anvil-like, becoming a cumulonimbus. It will disspare the amount of the size on the cloud, turning into a fractus fragment cloud now and continues its own cycling