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Jellyfish clouds: Have you ever seen clouds in the sky with swooping "tails" that look like jellyfish? We asked WRAL meteorologist Aimee Wilmoth.
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While the direct impact on broader weather patterns is generally minimal, certain materials or particles can serve as cloud condensation or ice nuclei, enhancing the formation of fog or clouds and potentially influencing precipitation within those cloud systems.
Various cloud types consist of either tiny ice crystals, a combination of ice crystals and liquid droplets, or solely water droplets.
Stratus clouds typically form in the lower atmosphere, while cirrus clouds develop at higher altitudes.
When on the side opposite the sun, the cloud appears dark due to limited light penetration, creating darkness beneath the storm.
Fog is essentially a cloud on contact with the ground.
On a calm night, rapid cooling occurs as outgoing radiant energy dominates without interference from above. However, if clear skies give way to clouds after significant ground cooling, the dynamics shift.
Tiny cloud droplets typically stay suspended in the air because they fall at a speed equal to or lower than the rising air.
Most clouds are formed by cooling that occurs due to expansion of air that is lifted to a higher altitude having lower pressure.
Partly cloudy and partly sunny are pretty much the same thing, according to the National Weather Service.
Following a rainstorm, clouds dissipate as the water droplets that formed them either evaporate or fall as precipitation, returning to the Earth's surface.
With a ceiling set at 3000 feet, all the clouds confined to that limited altitude, flying above it reveals the possibility of encountering another layer or no clouds at all.