Stratocumulus means a sheet of lumpy clouds; perlucidus means the light goes around. All this lies below tangled cirrus.
Posts Tagged ‘cumulus’
Stratocumulus perlucidus & cirrus intortus
Posted in Meteorology, tagged cirrus, Cloud types, cumulus on November 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
How big is a cloud? How high?
Posted in Meteorology, tagged cirrus, cumulus, Orders of magnitude in weather on October 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cloud sizes range from the smallest wisps of fog, no larger than man, to cumulo-nimbus that are several miles in height.
Cool-edge Cumulus
Posted in clouds, Meteorology, tagged cumulus on August 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Cumulus clouds after a cold front may have frozen and cottony edges
Cumulus Mushroomi
Posted in clouds, Meteorology, tagged cumulus on August 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A secondary cumulus mushroomed off a swelling cumulus and then broke off.
Cumulus congestus
Posted in clouds, Meteorology, tagged cumulus on August 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A small cumulus cloud is a single convection cell, with the look of a single section of cauliflower. When the convection cell is quite strong, it may pull other potential cells into its rising column, and may then blossom with several heads at the top. If it gets enough to look slightly out of [...]
Cumulus edges
Posted in clouds, Meteorology, tagged cumulus on August 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cottony cumulus tops are frozen.
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