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The latter can achieve heavy intensity due to the cloud's vertical depth. Accessory cloud: Nimbostratus pannus is an accessory cloud of nimbostratus that forms as a ragged layer in precipitation below the main cloud deck. [11] Pannus is coded C L 7. Genitus mother clouds: This genus type can form from cumulus and cumulonimbus.
Incus (species capillatus only): cumulonimbus with flat anvil-like cirriform top caused by wind shear where the rising air currents hit the inversion layer at the tropopause. [8] Mamma or mammatus: consisting of bubble-like protrusions on the underside. Tuba: column hanging from the cloud base which can develop into a funnel cloud or tornado ...
"Radial". Clouds in one of several possible forms arranged in parallel lines that appear to converge at a central point near the horizon. Undulatus "Wavy". Stratiform or stratocumuliform cloud displaying an undulating pattern. Vertebratus "In the form of a back-bone". Cirriform arranged to look like the back-bone of a vertebrate.
But did you know that our tendency to see images in random objects like clouds, vegetation and even everyday objects comes down to an interesting psychological phenomenon called pareidolia?Famed ...
Mammatus cloud seen at Puthenpeedika, India Mammatus clouds formation in Coimbatore, India Mammatus clouds over the Nepal Himalayas. Mammatus (also called mamma [1] or mammatocumulus, meaning "mammary cloud") is a cellular pattern of pouches hanging underneath the base of a cloud, typically a cumulonimbus raincloud, although they may be attached to other classes of parent clouds.
If you experience a thunderstorm in 2025, be sure to step outside and look to the sky after it passes for the chance to spot a unique type of cloud that looks like giant bubbles. Unlike most ...
The cumulonimbus flammagenitus cloud (CbFg), also known as the pyrocumulonimbus cloud, is a type of cumulonimbus cloud that forms above a source of heat, such as a wildfire, nuclear explosion, or volcanic eruption, [5] and may sometimes even extinguish the fire that formed it. [6] It is the most extreme manifestation of a flammagenitus cloud.
A curious cloud photographed over Smith Mountain in Virginia this week looks more like something out of a fairytale or painting than it does in real life — and the science behind the formation ...