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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.
"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.
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 ...
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.
A curious cloud seen over Smith Mountain looks more like something out of a fairytale than it does real life — and the science behind it is fascinating.
"Scud clouds can look like funnels or triangles or wedges in the air," Small said. "The thing that differentiates scud clouds from funnel clouds or actual tornadoes is they need to be rotating in ...
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.
While those twirling clouds may look like the work of a post-impressionist painter, they're all Jupiter. The colors, however, had some help from citizen scientists who used NASA's JunoCam images.