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Which clouds may become extremely large black and ominous-looking on hot summer days?
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What type of cloud may become extremely big black and ominous-looking on hot summer days?
thunderhead
How does nearness to a large body of water affect a coastal city's temperatures in the summer?
in the clouds
What type of cloud are thin and white?
Cirrus clouds are ice clouds. They can look like delicate white feathers or streamers. They are always more than three miles up where the temperature is below freezing, even in summer. Wind currents twist and spread the ice crystals into wispy strands.Stratus clouds often look like thin, white sheets covering the whole sky. Since they are so thin, they seldom produce much rain or snow. Sometimes, in the mountains or hills, these clouds appear to be fog.
Is the sun high or low is summer?
The is low in the summer
Does cumulus cloud give rain?
You have only to look up into the sky to try your luck at weather forecasting. Clouds give us a clue about what is going on in our atmosphere and how the weather might change in the hours or even days to come. Each type of cloud forms in a different way, and each brings its own kind of weather.Cool CondensationClouds are water. As you probably know, we can find water in three forms: liquid, solid and gas. Water as a gas is called water vapor. Clouds form when water vapor turns back into liquid water droplets. That is called condensation. It happens in one of two ways: when the air cools enough, or when enough water vapor is added to the air. You've seen the first process happen on a summer day as drops of water gather on the outside of a glass of ice tea. That's because the cold glass cools the air near it, causing the water vapor in the air to condense into liquid. Unlike the drops on the side of your glass though, the droplets of water in a cloud are so small that it takes about one million of them to form a single raindrop. Most clouds form this way, but the cooling comes not from ice in a glass, but as the air rises and cools high in the sky. Each tiny cloud droplet is light enough to float in the air, just as a little cloud floats out from your breath on a cold day.Too Clean for Clouds?Our air has to be just a little bit dirty for clouds to form. That's because water vapor needs a surface on which to condense. Fortunately, even the cleanest air has some microscopic particles of dust, smoke or salt for water droplets to cling to, so the air is rarely too clean for clouds to form.Cloud ClassificationsMeteorologists name clouds by how high in the sky they form and by their appearance. Most clouds have two parts to their name. Usually the first part of the name has to do with the height and the second part refers to the appearance.If clouds form at the highest levels, they get the prefix "cirro" as the first part of their name. Middle clouds get the prefix "alto." Low clouds don't get a prefix.There are two cloud appearance types: cumulus and stratus, which are also the basic names of the low clouds. Sometimes they appear higher in the atmosphere and get a combination name with a prefix. For example, middle cumulus clouds are called "altocumulus" and high stratus clouds are "cirrostratus." If a cloud produces rain or snow it gets either "nimbo" at the beginning or "nimbus" at the end.Cumulus clouds are low individual billowy globs that are low, have flat bases and look a little like cauliflower. They are at least as tall as they are wide and form on sunny days from pockets of rising air. Their constantly changing outlines are fun to watch because they can take the shapes of almost anything, including animals and faces. Cumulus clouds usually signal fair weather. If they build into the middle or high part of the atmosphere they get the name cumulonimbus. A cumulonimbus cloud is tall, deep and dark and can bring lightning, heavy rain and even severe weather such as hail, damaging winds or tornadoes. It is a sign of rapidly rising and sinking air currents.Stratus clouds are layered and cover most of the sky. They are much wider than they are tall. If you see them in broken or puffy layers, they are stratocumulus clouds. If you see them in thin high layers that turn the sky solid white, they're cirrostratus clouds. The tiny prisms of ice in a cirrostratus layer can bend the sun's light. As a result, often you can see a halo or veil of rainbow colors around the sun. When stratus clouds are very thick, they become dark nimbostratus clouds, which can produce rain, drizzle or snow.Cirrus clouds are high and thin and made entirely of ice crystals. Forming above 20,000 feet in the atmosphere, they often look like wisps of white hair. Cirrus clouds, which are a sign of warm moist air rising up over cold air, are sometimes an early signal that thickening clouds could bring light rain or snow within one or two days.Try to learn the names of the different clouds, and the next time you look up into the sky, take notice of what kind of clouds you see. And if you try, you might be able to guess what kind of weather they will bring
Why rainy season comes after summer seasons?
when it is summer season the water evaporates ant clouds become heavy
What true about clouds in the summer sky?
hey!The clouds in the sky are mostly made of ice crystals in the summer.
What is true about clouds in the summer sky?
hey!The clouds in the sky are mostly made of ice crystals in the summer.
What type of cloud may become extremely big black and ominous-looking on hot summer days?
thunderhead
Are the clouds always dark in the south pole?
No because in the summer some of the clouds are white or not Evan there
What kind of clouds appear in sunny summer skies?
stratus
What season do cumulonimbus clouds form?
Cumulonimbus clouds cann occur at any time of year, but are most common in the summer.
When do funnel clouds usually occur?
Funnel clouds most often occur in the spring and early summer and in the later afternoon and early evening.
Why does it rain less in summer?
there is less water in or on the ground to evaporate and form clouds
Which season can you see cumulus clouds winter spring summer or fall?
Winter
How does nearness to a body of water affect coastal city's temperature's in the summer?
in the clouds
What season can you see stratus clouds winter spring summer or fall?
winter
