![]() The Holy, holy, holy Cavum cloud Source: Wikimedia.Ī deadly murus or wall cloud spawning a twister (bottom left) and cauda or tail cloud (bottom right) Source WMO. Surfs Up with Fluctus clouds! Source: WMO. (astronomy, geology) An area covered by outflow from a volcano.··a wave, billow 29 BCE 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1. More familiar to “Tornado Alley” residents is the real “Doomsday” cloud, the murus or wall cloud, with its turbulent winds that can create tornadoes. Stratocumulus may also show mamma its under surface then presents an accentuated relief in the form of udders or inverted mounds that even appear to be on the point of detaching themselves from the cloud. Stratocumulus may show asperitas and fluctus, and at very low temperatures, cavum. The cauda cloud is a horizontal, non-spinning tail. Supplementary features and accessory clouds. Then there is the Cavum or “hole-punch” cloud. Probably the most fun of these in the Fluctus wave clouds that look like they were created by a cartoon artist. This blog will show you the peculiar Supplement clouds. The next blog will do the Frankenstein “Special” clouds and the latest accessory. The other new clouds are either Supplements (odd attachments), “Special” (weirdly created) or Accessory. Discovered by Gavin Pretor-Pinney in 2006, the Cloud Appreciation Society has been pushing for their official scientific recognition ever since. ![]() They were the first new cloud identified since 1951. The rest of the clouds are species with the first and most popular addition being the scary-looking Undulatus Asperatus (Latin for “billowing roughness”). 6 7 Type 1 Veils, very tenuous stratiform resembles cirrostratus or poorly defined cirrus. ![]() Altocumulus stratiformis fluctus bei Lanzarote II.jpg 3,765 × 2,411 4.72 MB. Noctilucent clouds are thin clouds that come in a variety of forms based from about 80 to 85 kilometres (262,000279,000 ft) and occasionally seen in deep twilight after sunset and before sunrise. The Doomsday cloud: Undulatus Asperatus Source: NASA. Credit Witta Priester. The following 52 files are in this category, out of 52 total. This cloud is the burrito of the sky, formed when the cold upper air drops and rolls the warm, moist air to form a long, horizontal cylinder. The biggest change to the atlas is the volutus, a whole new species. They fit these new clouds in the old genus groups and have given them complicated Latin names. Thanks to devoted amateurs and good cell phone pictures, they have discovered a whole new species and 11 varieties. The World Meteorological Organization originally recognized only 10 types (genera) of clouds and organized them by form and height, with genus, species and varieties just like plants and animal classifications. ![]()
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