Clouds

Night Shining Noctilucent Clouds
Noctilucent Clouds: Illuminating the Night Sky
Noctilucent clouds are so beautiful, shining with a luminescent glow in the twilight sky at the very edge of space. These clouds are also known as polar mesopheric clouds or by their abbreviation NLC. Despite their ethereal beauty, night shining noctilucent clouds have darker connotations of evidence of damage to our ozone layer and global warming effects. Scientists cannot absolutely prove why or how they appear. Read on to see where and when you are most likely to see the noctilucent clou...

Clouds That Look Like UFOs: Lenticular Clouds
What is so special about the Lenticular cloud?
Imagine driving down the highway, and as you stop at a red light you look up and see this unreal and humongous cloud! Well you wouldn't be the first to mistake it for a huge UFO coming to visit earth! Actually, it's an Altocumulus Lenticularis, commonly known as a lenticular cloud. Amazing isn't it! Lenticular clouds are often mistaken for flying saucers, in fact some people believe that aliens hide behind these clouds! They have a smooth shape, completely unlike most clouds, and the way the...

A Guide to the Undulatus Asperatus Cloud
Undulatus Asperatus - Clouds of Armageddon?
The breathtaking undulatus asperatus cloud looks very like stormy ocean waves, and is rather disorientating to see as these waves are upside down in the sky! I have been very fortunate to have seen an asperatus cloud walking to work on a muggy humid morning. As I rounded the corner I looked up and the sky made me stop in my tracks! The billows of the asperatus cloud I saw looked as soft and smooth as ripples of silk. I didn't have a camera with me so grabbed my cell phone and took as many p...

What are Clouds?
Clouds fascinate me. Their shapes are ever changing. Clouds can be beautiful when lightening flashes through or when sunrise or sunset light reflects off them with gorgeous red or purple colors. These clouds were photographed by me in Florida over the Gulf of Mexico. Thanks for visiting. Bookmark this on Delicious

Book Review Clouds - What They Are and What They Indicate
Clouds What They Are and What They Indicate
Clouds - What They Are and What They Indicate is an interesting, picture filled book that identifies clouds. This is an e-book and available at GoogleBooks. The author is Henry Mark Smith. The wording gives insights into what composes the clouds, such as liquid water, ice, or supercooled liquid. Not all clouds can produce precipitation, and this book provides an understanding on what clouds might produce. There is an introductory chapter, a chapter on low clouds, a chapter on middle clouds,...