Monday, July 14, 2014

I Look At Clouds From Both Sides Now ...

 I love looking and staring up in the sky. I love the view up there especially when there are different fascinating cloud formation. The mackerel sky. Cirro-cumulus clouds up there. Beautiful!

Yes dude I am a cloud enthusiast. I am a "meteorologist" by heart. I studied the sky for so many years without the need to attend or go to university to study Meteorology.

I'm not a sorceress nor a witch it's just that I can foretell if it will rain or if there's a storm just by looking at the clouds up there.


 
 Beautiful clouds! Picturesque view and I feel like touching its image there. Like a cotton candy, soft and marvellous.

More clouds on this part of the sky, this time the wide array of clouds moved graciously to the wind's desire. You wonder how clouds are formed. Scientists thought the clouds are formed through evaporation. Water from the sea evaporates when the climate is hot. When the water is carried up to the air through the process of evaporation and then changed into water vapor clouds are then formed and carried to the atmosphere and when the clouds get heavier it will rain. That's the normal process. Then you asked you have seen those heavy clouds up on your sky's location but it didn't rain. The wind carried the clouds to the other location and there received the rainfall. That's why those islands with wind turbine can manipulate the kind of weather they have. They can have the kind of weather they want without any rainfall at all but is that good?

 Cirrus? With mares or tail? Looks like a tornado but is not. Like a fan or a mushroom. That's the weird cloud formation I have seen the other day while I was "stargazing." It's hardly moving for it stays there for few minutes. According to scientists cirrus clouds carried ice crystals with it.

CIRRUS is one of the main form of clouds with a tail. The second form is the STRATUS which is not pleasing to look at because it's only a layered formation of clouds on the horizon. It's like God brushing the clouds from left to the right of his canvas which is the sky. The 3rd form is CUMULUS which is fluffy hairy cauliflower-look alike shape with flat base.

CLOUDS are found from above the surface of the earth, above sea level from 1/2 to 7 miles (above sea level!) when clouds are formed above the ground you can call the clouds FOG.


Source image: The New Book Of Knowledge
 
 
So why there are so many cloud formation? There are: Fair weather cumulus cloud, Cirro cumulus clouds like a mackerel sky, stratus clouds stretching the across the sky in layers, alto-stratus clouds (greyish sunset bluish color clouds because of the reflection of the sun's light), cirro-stratus clouds are clouds where you can see a halo around the sun or moon, strato cumulus clouds are clouds that are loosely packed I think depends on its gaseous substance on that part of the atmosphere. While nimbo stratus clouds are clouds that are at the lower part of the atmosphere, heavy with its substance. Alto cumulus clouds have thin layers. Anvil cumulus nimbus are storm clouds (like cotton balls).

I think the clouds you are seeing on the images above are accumulated or formed from the kind of gaseous substance they have. What those gases above the sky?  It also depends on how heavy and light the water vapor they carry. In all these formation and process of cloud formation the WIND is the master of the task the clouds have to perform.

Not experienced? I don't need to look at the sky and clouds. If the water is needed by the earth, sprinkle your yard with water from your hose, from your water tap. Take a bath everyday so that it will refresh your body and mind. For the unbeliever? let them soak under the rain and storm.