How To Classify Clouds

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Hello I'm weather announcer Melissa Schenk and on behalf of Expert Village today we're going to be talking about the weather. In this clip let's talk about the classification of clouds now you really can talk about clouds for hours. There's so much knowledge on behind clouds and it continues to grow but knowing the different types of clouds and there are different classifications of clouds and the different process that make these clouds it's very helpful to forecasting the weather, and I'll show you why. I got a chart here and you can see these are basically the different types of clouds it's always fun to try and guess the types of clouds when your outside but it does take a lot of practice. Now clouds are labeled according to there appearance and according to there altitude as you can see on the left hand side we got basically a chart from zero miles up to 10 miles so that's where the altitude comes into play on this chart. But really when you look at clouds there only 3 main types of clouds are they stringy, are they hippy, or are they layered. And there are only 3 altitudes high, middle, and low clouds now there's one more important cloud type and that would be those big sort of heaped clouds that generates vertically into the sky. Some of these vertical clouds there really harmless and there called fair weather clouds you can see some of the stringy clouds that would be cirrus not going to cause a lot of harm, not going to cause you any precipitation but then when you get into some of the lower cloud cover the ones that have a nimbus in there name. Nimbus means rain in latin but when you get nimbus stratus clouds or the stratocumulus clouds usually you do get a chance of precipitation with these types of clouds. And these are the monsters that could bring some of the most dangerous and violent weather associated with you know hurricanes, tornado's, and storms so cloud cover important but really you can't learn it in 2 minutes, it's something that has to be studied

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