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CLOUDS
Question | Answer |
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stratus | blanket-like layers that often produce long,steady percipitation |
cumulus | puffy clouds with a flat bottom and bring fair weather |
cirrus | wispy,feather-like shape;seen on sunny days |
cumulonimbus | produce heavy and brief thunderstorms and the only clouds to form vertically |
fog | low lying stratus clouds |
rain | falls through warm air from the cloud all the way to the ground |
snow | falls through cold air from the cloud to the ground |
sleet | falls as a raindrop from the cloud and then falls through cold air to the ground |
hail | produced by a cumulonimbus cloud-moves up and down in the cloud and grows larger and larger |