Clouds are floating masses of water vapour or ice crystals.
There are different types of clouds that occur at different altitudes.
Nimbostratus clouds are towering clouds where thunderstorms form.
Cumulous clouds are common low altitude clouds and form in rising air currents.
Stratus clouds are a layer of low clouds from which drizzle usually falls.
WIND
⚜ What is Wind? ⚜
Wind is the motion of air molecules over the land and water.
Wind is generated by the heat of the Sun and the rotation of the Earth.
The Coriolis Force causes the wind direction to curve.
Water waves are caused principally by the wind blowing over the water.
TRIVIA
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The narrow bands of high altitude high speed winds are called Jet Streams. Jet Streams flow from west to east.
THUNDERSTORMS
⚜ What are Thunderstorms? ⚜
Thunderstorms form within Cumulonimbus clouds and are characterized by booming thunder and bright lightning flashes.
THUNDER & LIGHTNING
⚜ What is Thunder & Lightning? ⚜
Lightning occurs due to the separation of positive and negative electric charge within Cumulonimbus clouds.
Lightning bolts are electrons jumping from negatively charged areas of cloud to positively charged areas of cloud and electrons jumping from negatively charged areas of the ground to positively charged areas of cloud.
Thunder is caused by the rapid compression and expansion of the air during a lightning discharge.
ATMOSPHERE
⚜ What is the Atmosphere? ⚜
The Atmosphere is composed of five main layers: the Troposphere, the Stratosphere, the Mesosphere, the Thermosphere and the Exosphere.
The Troposphere is where life exists on the Earth and where weather occurs. Temperature decreases with altitude.
The Stratosphere has few clouds and the air is thin. The temperature increases with altitude.
The Thermosphere is where ionized particles exist and is the main part of the Ionosphere, a general layer from where Radio waves are reflected.
RELAXATION VIDEO
Click the Image below to watch Relaxing Clouds Above.
HAIL
⚜ What is Hail? ⚜
Hail forms when supercooled water drops collide with ice crystals within clouds.
Hail falls out the base of the cloud as Hailstones.
Hail oftens occurs in thunderstorm cumulonimbus clouds.
AIR PARCEL
⚜ What is an Air Parcel? ⚜
An Air parcel is a self-contained packet of air with its own unique temperature and pressure. It's like a bubble in water.
Air parcels rise when their temperature is higher than the surrounding air.
DEW POINT
⚜ What is the Dew Point? ⚜
The temperature at which water vapour in the air becomes saturated and begins to condense is called the Dew Point.
DEW
⚜ What is Dew? ⚜
Dew occurs on clear nights when objects and vegetation such as grass and leaves cool by radiation to a temperature lower than the dewpoint of the air. Water vapour will then condense and form dew on the vegetation.
FROST
⚜ What is Frost? ⚜
Frost forms when the dewpoint is below the freezing point. Frosts are ice crystals and appear white and opaque.
