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How do Mammatus clouds form?

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Hot air rising and sthen cools and sinks and forms udder like shaped clouds

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Where does Mammatus cloud form?

Mammatus clouds form on the underside of a storm cloud and are most often associated with the anvil cloud that extends from a cumulonimbus. They have also been seen under altocumulus, altostratus, stratocumulus, and cirrus clouds, as well as volcanic ash clouds.


How high are Mammatus clouds?

They form on the under side of mountains.


What planet are mammatus clouds on?

On Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.


What is a mammatus on a tornado?

A mammatus cloud is not a cloud characteristic of tornadoes, but it is often associated with severe thunderstorms. Mammatus clouds consist of small, smooth puffs of cloud that hand down from the base of a larger cloud, often the anvil of a thunderstorm.


What weather does a mammatus make?

Mammaus clouds are on the backsides of strong thunderstorms they are the key to knowing that a storm has passed.


What are miscellaneous clouds?

Miscellaneous clouds are clouds that are not normally well-known by name. The general types of clouds most familiar to people are cumulus, stratus, cirrus, and nimbus clouds. Some types of miscellaneous clouds include mammatus clouds, noctilucent clouds, and nacreous clouds.


Areas of descending air?

Mammatus clouds for in sinking air. (Ahrens 2008) Essentials of Meteorology Fifth Edition


Which cloud is associated with severe weather?

Mammatus. Mammatus is cloud that hangs from an anvil of a mature storm cloud and brings severe weather especially tornadoes. Another one is called Cumulonimbus. These clouds bring VERY heavy rain or thunder storms.


How many cloud are there?

=there are 15 i have counted off of the internet so yeah i have also counted in the sky==here they are:==Cirrus clouds==Cirrostratus clouds==Cirrocumulus clouds==Altostratus clouds==Altocumulus clouds==Stratus clouds==Stratocumulus clouds==Nimbostratus clouds==Cumulus clouds==Cumulonimbus clouds==Mammatus clouds==Lenticular clouds==Fog==Contrails==Green Clouds=


What type of cloud does heavy rain fall from?

Cumulonimbus clouds, those can cause supercell storms (rotating thunderstorms) and then severe weather, such as deadly lightning, tornadoes, large hail, straight line winds, and even flooding.Another cloud is Mammatus. Mammatus hangs beneath the anvil of a mature thunder cloud. It produces severe weather especially tornadoes. I read this from a book so this is true.


Do clouds form from sublimation?

No, clouds form by condensation.


What form is the water in when it is in the clouds?

Water in clouds is in gaseous form.