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Nacreous Clouds


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These rare clouds, sometimes called mother-of-pearl

clouds, are 15 - 25km (9 -16 miles) high in the stratosphere

and well above tropospheric clouds.They have iridescent

colours but are higher and much rarer than ordinary

iridescent clouds. They are seen mostly but not exclusively

in polar regions and in winter at high latitudes, Scandinavia,Alaska, Northern Canada. Lower level iridescent clouds

can be seen anywhere shine brightly in high altitude

sunlight up to two hours after ground level sunset or before

dawn. Their unbelievably bright iridescent colours and slowmovement relative to any lower clouds make them an

unmistakable and unforgettable sight

Nacreous Clouds


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Altocumulus Castelanus


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Also known as jellyfish clouds due to theirjellyfish-like appearance.These formed

around 17,000 ft due to when the rush of

moist air comes from the Gulf Stream andgets trapped between layers of dry air. The

top of the cloud rises into a jellyfish shape

and long tentacles known as trailing virga

form from rain drops that have evaporated.

Altocumulus Castelanus


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Noctilucent Clouds


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Noctilucent Clouds or Polar Mesopheric

Clouds: This is an extroadinarily rare cloud

formation that occurs out on the verge of

space between 82km to 102 km from the

earths surface.Noctilucent clouds appear tobe luminous yet they reflect the sunlight

from the other side of the earth at night,

giving them a glowing appearance

Noctilucent Clouds


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Mammatus Clouds


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Mammatus are pouch-like cloud

structures and a rare example of cloudsin sinking air.Sometimes very ominous

in appearance, mammatus clouds are

harmless and do not mean that atornado is about to form - a commonly

held misconception. In fact, mammatus

are usually seen after the worst of a

thunderstorm has passed.

Mammatus Clouds


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Mushroom Clouds


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A mushroom cloud is a distinctive mushroom-shaped cloud of smoke,

condensed water vapor, or debris resulting from a very large explosion.

They are most commonly associated with nuclear explosions, but any

sufficiently large blast will produce the same sort of effect.Volcano

eruptions and impact events can produce natural mushroom

clouds.Mushroom clouds form as a result of the sudden formation of a

large mass of hot low-density gases near the ground creating a

Rayleigh-Taylor instability. The mass of gas rises rapidly, resulting inturbulent vortices curling downward around its edges and drawing up a

column of additional smoke and debris in the centre to form its stem.

The mass of gas eventually reaches an altitude where it is no longer

less dense than the surrounding air and disperses, the debris drawn

upward from the ground scattering and drifting back down.


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Cirrus Kelvin-Helmholtz


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Appearing as a slender, horizontalspiral of cloud, cirrus Kelvin-Helmholtz

is one of the most distinctive cloud

formations. However, it tends todissipate only a minute or two after

forming and, as a result, is rarely

observed.Average height is around16,500 ft.

Cirrus Kelvin-Helmholtz


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Lenticular Clouds


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Lenticular clouds, technically known as

altocumulus standing lenticularis, are stationary

lens-shaped clouds that form at high altitudes,normally aligned at right-angles to the wind

direction.Where stable moist air flows over a

mountain or a range of mountains, a series of

large-scale standing waves may form on the

downwind side. Lenticular clouds sometimes form

at the crests of these waves. Under certain

conditions, long strings of lenticular clouds canform, creating a formation known as a wave cloud.


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Roll Clouds


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A roll cloud is a low, horizontal tube-shaped arcus

cloud associated with a thunderstorm gust front, or

sometimes a cold front. Roll clouds can also be asign of possible microburst activity.Cool air sinking

air from a storm clouds downdraft spreads out

across the surface with the leading edge called a

gust front. This outflow undercuts warm air being

drawn into the storms updraft. As the cool air lifts

the warm moist air water condenses creating

cloud, which often rolls with the different windsabove and below (wind shear).


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Shelf Clouds


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A shelf cloud is a low, horizontal wedge-

shaped arcus cloud, associated with a

thunderstorm gust front (or occasionally witha cold front, even in the absence of

thunderstorms).Unlike a roll cloud, a shelf

cloud is attached to the base of the parentcloud above it (usually a

thunderstorm).Rising cloud motion often can

be seen in the leading (outer) part of the

shelf cloud, while the underside often

appears turbulent, boiling, and wind-torn.


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Stratocumulus Clouds


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