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altocumulus

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altocumulus: see cloud cloud, aggregation of minute particles of water or ice suspended in the air. Formation of Clouds


Clouds are formed when air containing water vapor is cooled below a critical temperature called the dew point and the resulting moisture condenses into
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CAPTION(S): EVENING GLOW: Brian Hutchinson of Hartburn, Stockton, photographed this spectacular sky of altocumulus clouds in Hartburn, left; GO WITH THE FLOW: Young photographer, Laina Christie, aged ten, captured this peaceful stream and woodland near Osmotherley, below; NATURE: A Mistle Thrush in the snow, photographed by Brian Swales of Letch Lane, Stockton, on January 3, above.
PEOPLE: Your pictures; Passionate people. Passionate places by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
Divided into sections devoted to low, middle, and high clouds, this field guide to the sky includes such details as that cumulonimbus clouds are ferocious storm producers, that altocumulus lenticularis clouds look like UFOs, and that cirrostratus clouds have a tendency for form halos.
The Cloudspotter's Guide by Science News
Thus, altocumulus is a puffy cloud at high altitude and cumulonimbus is a cumulus cloud that rains.
Clouds by Science Weekly
 
 
 
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