Photo Blog #10

For this week's blog, I decided I wanted to focus on clouds. The clouds depicted are some outside of my apartment building. These photos were all taken around 11:45 on Sunday, June 8th.

One way that clouds can form is due to the convection cycle. An example of this is a sea breeze. Air likes to go from high pressure places to low pressure places, and since the land is able to heat up more than the ocean, the land air is less dense than the ocean air. Therefore, the air goes from the land to the ocean. From there, the air moves up and eventually cools down, where the water vapor in the air is able to condense and form clouds. This happens when air reaches its dew point.

Throughout this class I have learned about how clouds are formed, but I wanted to do some research on the different types of clouds. After conducting some research, I have learned that there are 5 different types of clouds: cirrus, cumulus, stratus, cumulonimbus, and nimbostratus. Some characteristics associated with cirrus clouds are wispy, high, and fair weather. Some characteristics associated with cumulus clouds are fluffy and fair weather. Some characteristics associated with stratus clouds are flat, gray, cloudy, and light rain. Some characteristics associated with cumulonimbus clouds are huge and big storms. Some characteristics associated with nimbostratus clouds are thick, dark, and steady rain or snow.