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  2. Asperitas (cloud) - Wikipedia

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    Asperitas (formerly known as Undulatus asperatus) is a cloud formation first popularized and proposed as a type of cloud in 2009 by Gavin Pretor-Pinney of the Cloud Appreciation Society. Added to the International Cloud Atlas as a supplementary feature in March 2017, it is the first cloud formation added since cirrus intortus in 1951. [ 2 ]

  3. List of cloud types - Wikipedia

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    Clouds of the genus nimbostratus tend to bring constant precipitation and low visibility. This cloud type normally forms above 2 kilometres (6,600 ft) [10] from altostratus cloud but tends to thicken into the lower levels during the occurrence of precipitation. The top of a nimbostratus deck is usually in the middle level of the troposphere.

  4. Aeromancy - Wikipedia

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    Aeromancy uses cloud formations, wind currents, and cosmological events such as comets, to attempt to divine the past, present, or future. [2] There are sub-types of this practice which are as follows: austromancy (wind divination), ceraunoscopy (observing thunder and lightning), chaomancy (aerial vision), meteormancy (meteors, AKA shooting stars), and nephomancy (cloud divination).

  5. Storm clouds make great pictures, but what do they mean - AOL

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    What different clouds mean. Clouds are more than just picturesque features of the sky; they are critical indicators of the weather to come. Understanding the various types of clouds can provide ...

  6. Watch the hypnotic undulations of stratocumulus asperitas ...

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    Local photographer and meteorologist Alfons Puertas captured this amazing footage from the Fabra Observatory in Barcelona, Spain. Alfons explained: "After a brief storm the sky is covered with ...

  7. How to discover a new 'species' of cloud – a sky spotter's guide

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    Clouds can reveal a great deal about the world we live in. Here's what happens when scientists find a whole new type. How to discover a new 'species' of cloud – a sky spotter's guide

  8. Xiangyun (Auspicious clouds) - Wikipedia

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    Chinese character Qi (气), Spring and Autumn period The clouds physical characteristics (being wispy and vaporous in nature) were associated with the Taoist concept of qi (气; 氣), especially yuanqi, [3]: 133 and the cosmological forces at work; [1] [note 4] i.e. the yuanqi was the origins of the Heavens and Earth, and all things were created from the interaction between the yin and yang.

  9. The Cloud of Unknowing - Wikipedia

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    God is spirit in the purest sense; therefore, no matter how intense one's desire or how fervent one's love, the movement toward God by body-bound contemplatives will ever be halted by the cloud of unknowing that hides God from our understanding and prevents the fullest and truest experience of God's being.