Beautiful Clouds – Like You Never Imagined
Clouds are a beautiful gift of nature and a great contributor to human civilizations. Besides its benefits in agriculture, clouds influence human mood, creates romanticism and thus have a strong presence in literature. It is an interesting subject for scientists too due to its complexity of formation and particles.
Despite varying immensely in terms of size, color and dimension; clouds all over the world are basically made of ice or condensed water vapor. When the ground water comes in touch with sunlight, it starts to vaporize and flies above the atmosphere. Once the water vapor cools down, they cluster together to form clouds. Only the thick and coldest clouds come down as precipitation; the rest melts away with the air.
Scientists have been trying to create a definite classification system of the cloud for a long time. In 1802, British chemist Luke Howard proposed the first classification. Since then, it has been modified, improved and extended based on various cloud shapes, altitude, color, features etc. However, one never requires scientific knowledge to appreciate beauty, and it is the same for the cloud too.
Here is a collection of amazing cloud photos that will definitely put you in awe for its variation in color and shape!
Mammatus Clouds
Image credits: HeavyLight.ca
Image credits: Ken Lewis –
Image credits: Vincent Fryhover
Lenticular Clouds
Image credits: Brian Middleton
Image credits: Jean-Michel Priaux
Image credits: Dementievskiy Ivan
Undulatus Asperatus
Image credits: JΩSH
Image credits: wittap
mage credits: JΩSH
Fallstreak Hole
Image credits: ladigue_99
Image credits: mtnrockdhh
Image credits: lookseenseen
Polar Stratospheric Cloud
Image credits: Alan R. Light
Image credits: FotoLind
Image credits: FotoLind
Cirrus Kelvin-Helmholtz
Image credits: drdouglascordeiro.blogspot.com
Image credits: drdouglascordeiro.blogspot.com
Image credits: pfjc&pfjc2
Roll Clouds
Image credits: Kick Petroff
Image credits: apod.nasa.gov
Anvil Clouds
Image credits: Nicholas_T
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Image credits: *Lampy*
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