Clouds

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Luke Howard named all the clouds. He named the clouds in the 1970's.

There are eleven types of clouds, but there are many more. They are Cumulus, Cumulonimbus, Cirrus, Cirrostratus, Fog, Cirrocumulus, Altostratus, Altocumulus, Straus, Stratocumulus, Nimbostratus.

It takes several steps for cloud to form.

  • First, clouds form when the sunlight warms the surface at the ground and turns water into water vapor.
  • Second, a warm moist layer of air builds up in lowest the 1,000 to 5,000 feet.
  • Next, it rises into currents that organizes into thermals.
  • Last, water vapors raises into a cloud. Do you know what happens when clouds aren't forming? Well there's an answer, there would drought, which means that there would not be any water.
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