Silver clouds (also known as the mesospheric clouds or night-shining clouds) – rare atmospheric phenomenon. These clouds are visible in the deep twilight. They usually occur in summer months at latitudes between 43 ° and 60 ° (north and south). Emphasized as an independent phenomenon VK Tseraskim. The study of silver clouds studied Sharonov. General [...]

For the first time since 1953, meteorologists say about the resulting new cloud type. Moreover, the event itself is remarkable, so also the look of these clouds … In short, their own look. The first pictures were made in the UK and New Zealand. New clouds may resemble the surface of water, land, sometimes they [...]

Rain clouds – powerful and dense clouds with strong vertical development (up to a height of 14 km), yielding abundant heavy rains with strong hail and thunderstorms.  Rain clouds develop from cumulus clouds powerful. They can form a line, called line squalls. The lower levels of rain clouds consist mainly of water droplets, while at [...]

Stratus clouds are uniform gray clouds that usually cover the entire sky. They can form when very weak, upward vertical air currents lift a thin layer of air high enough to initiate condensation. Stratus clouds also form when a layer of air is cooled from below to its dewpoint temperature and water vapor condenses into [...]

Cirrus clouds are thin, wispy clouds that usually form above 18,000 feet. These clouds are blown by strong westerly winds aloft into streamers known as “mares’ tails” Cirrus clouds generally move from west to east across the sky and usually “point” to fair weather. Cirrus clouds form when water vapor undergoes deposition and forms ice [...]