1. Cloud Presentation By: Brandon Bond

2. Basic Cloud Types Cumulus – Puffy, white clouds with flat bottoms Stratus – Form in layers Cirrus – Thin, feathery, white clouds

3. Cumulus Clouds Formed when warm air rises. Look like piles of cotton balls. Generally indicate fair weather but, when they get larger they produce thunderstorms. Cumulonimbus clouds produce thunderstorms

4. Cirrus Clouds Form when the wind is strong. Look like thin, feathery white clouds. If they get thicker then they indicate that a change in the weather is coming.

5. Stratus Clouds Formed from a gentle lifting of a large body of air into the atmosphere. Look like white layers in the sky. Weather can be foggy and/or light to heavy continuous rain. Nimbostratus clouds are dark clouds that produce the rain.

6. Altitudes Clouds are also classified by the altitude at which they form. – High Begins with prefix cirro- Made up of ice crystals due to cold temperatures. – Middle Begins with the prefix alto- Made up of water drops and ice crystals – Low No prefixes. Made up of water drops.

7. Cumulus clouds and sandstone rocks. Earthscience World image bank Cumulus Clouds

8. Cumulus clouds over a plain. Earthscience World image bank

9. Stratocumulus clouds over Monument Valley in Arizona. Earthscience World image bank

10. Stratocumulus clouds over Idaho. Earthscience World image bank

11. Cirrus in long parallel bands GLOBE Cloud Exploration

12. Cirrus clouds look like white delicate feathers. GLOBE Cloud Exploration

13. Cirrocumulus Clouds http://www.eo.ucar.edu/kids/sky/images/7066

14. cirrocumulus cloud has small-scale ripples GLOBE Cloud Exploration

15. Stratus clouds over Lake Superior GLOBE Cloud Exploration

16. Fog is a stratus cloud. GLOBE Cloud Exploration

17. Cirrostratus clouds are a thin, transparent, whitish layer made up of ice crystals. GLOBE Cloud Exploration

18. Cirrostratus clouds in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado GLOBE Cloud Exploration

19. Altocumulus clouds look like waves of the sea with white and grey coloring and shadows. GLOBE Cloud Exploration

20. Altocumulus clouds are almost always water droplets, and rarely ice crystals. GLOBE Cloud Exploration

21. Nimbostratus with mountain rain and snow showers GLOBE Cloud Exploration

22. Nimbostratus is a very dark and grey colored cloud layer that blots out the light of the sun. GLOBE Cloud Exploration

23. Altostratus clouds form a bluish or greyish veil that totally or partially covers the sky. GLOBE Cloud Exploration

24. The light of the sun can be seen through Altocumulus clouds but there is no halo effect. GLOBE Cloud Exploration

25. Cumulonimbus are very large, heavy and dense clouds GLOBE Cloud Exploration

26. Cumulonimbus clouds have a generally flat, dark surface with very tall and large tops like the shape of a massive mountain and are associated with thunder and lightning. GLOBE Cloud Exploration