Tuesday, July 22, 2008

I love....puffy clouds

One of the many things I love are puffy clouds. I’m not sure what it is about them that I love so, but if they’re in the sky, you can bet I’m looking up to catch a glimpse of one of those cotton-candy puffs floating by. The scientific word for them is Cumulus Clouds. Cumulous means “heap, a pile, an accumulation.” The shorter they are, the more likely the weather will be fair, but the higher they climb, the more likely you’ll see thunderstorms. They can soar up to 39,000 feet in to the sky (that'd be one serious thunderstorm!) When they get really tall, scientists call them cumulonimbus. Whatever! I just like looking at them!










I call this one the Ironic Cloud.
Doesn't it look like an umbrella?


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