Notes on Cloud Family and Cloud Genus
The nimbostratus of stratocumulus in low cloud system is partly in the lower layer, but mostly in the middle layer.
Usually layered.
The stratocumulus of the Mesocumulus family is generally layered.
Cirrus clouds of the Gaoyun family, cirrocumulus and cirrostratus are generally layered.
Cumulonimbus Cumulonimbus belongs to the direct expansion cloud system, which can penetrate all horizontal clouds and extend very high in the vertical direction.
Generally in the middle level, but can be extended to a higher level.
Cloud identification is very useful for future weather signs. The following is a brief description of these ten cloud genera: (1) Cirrus clouds are thin and scattered, with fibrous tissues, such as feathers, loose hair or ponytails, hanging alone in the cloudless sky, and appear orange or red at sunrise and sunset.
Cirrus is the highest cloud, which appears before the sun reaches the horizon in the morning.
(2) cirrostratus
It is the highest and whitest cloud curtain. When the sun or moon is covered, its outline can still be seen, and there is often a halo around it. Where there is a halo in the sky, there must be cirrocumulus, but the thick cirrocumulus is pulled to the horizon like a curtain.
(3) cirrocumulus
This kind of cloud rarely appears and occasionally covers the whole day. Fishermen call it mackerel day, because the sky seems to be covered with fish scales, and the individuals are small, white and cloudless, and sometimes wavy. Cirrocumulus mostly appears at the same time as Cirrus or cirrostratus.
(4) Stratospheric clouds
Most of the high-level clouds are covered all day, and when they gradually become thick and low, people feel gloomy. Before they turn into rain cumulus clouds, there are usually sporadic rains.
On the contrary, cumulus clouds also rose in nimbostratus.
(5) Cumulus clouds
The individuals of the altocumulus are larger than those of cirrocumulus, and the clouds are in the center, often connected together, with wavy bottoms, long rows, or checkerboards, with many styles.
(6) Stratocumulus
Individuals are larger than cumulus clouds, with softer appearance and less obvious structure. If connected together, there are wavy patterns and alternating shades of gray at the bottom.
Stratocumulus clouds are mostly like giant rollers, and the bottom of the clouds represents the nest layer.
(7) Stratocumulus Stratocumulus is a uniform gray-white low cloud that looks like fog, but does not touch the ground. When shrouded in the middle of the mountain, the edge has a downward posture, and there is dense fog.
(viii) nimbostratus.
It is a typical bad weather cloud, dark and amorphous, much like a broken cloud, which makes the sky dark. Anything that persists must have fallen on nimbostratus.
(9) Cumulus clouds are like a pile of cotton, with uneven tops and bulges like mounds, cauliflowers or towers. When the sun shines obliquely, the bright and dark sides of cumulus are obvious. if
In the same direction as the sun, the center is dark and the edges are particularly bright.
It is the thickest and largest cloud, with extremely high vertical extension and dark bottom, which is difficult to distinguish. The top rises like a mountain or tower, and there are often anvil-shaped pseudo-cirrus clouds protruding like huge feather fans. When the cumulonimbus clouds reach the zenith, there will be a thunderstorm soon.