Minggu, 05 Februari 2012

Lets talk about Weather!

Hi! Today i am going to talk about a new topic called "weather"
To start lets talk about types of clouds!

Types of clouds:

  • Cumulus
  • Nimbostratus
  • Cumulonimbus
  • Stratus
  • Cirrus
Cumulus:
Cumulus Clouds
This are sample of cumulus clouds. Cumulus clouds are usually looks soft and fluffy like a cotton ball. It is located around 2000 meter in the atmosphere. 


Cumulonimbus Clouds







Cumulonimbus:
Stratus Clouds
This are sample of cumulonimbus.Cumulonimbus are formed when cumulus clods turns grey. It is located 1600 - 2000 meter in the atmosphere. This clouds could cause long steady rain.









Stratus:
Stratus clouds are located 2000 meter below the atmosphere. It is like a flattened sheets of clouds. It may stay over some place for sometime. This clouds cause overcast weather.












It looks like feathers right?
Cirrus:
Cirrus clouds are formed 8000 meter above the atmosphere. Cirrus Clouds looks like a feather.This Cloud could be seen even in a sunny day!










It's colour is dark grey
Nimbostratus:
This clouds are formed at a height of 2400 meter in the atmosphere. This cloud could bring a long and steady rain.











Since we are done talking about types of clouds. Now lets talk about other types of weather related things.
  • Dew
Dew are formed when water vapor in the air comes in contact with a cold objects of a temperature at or below the dew point. The temperature at which droplets can from is called dew point.
Dew on the leaf

  • Hail
Hail is a form of precipitation that falls from the sky as clumps of ice. Precipitation is produced when water vapor from the sky condenses and falls to the ground because the clouds could not hold it anymore
This is how hail looks like

  • Wind
To be exact wind cannot be seen. We can only feel it. Wind has its own negative and positive effects.

This Windmill could make wind
Positive effects
Wind could help the plants on doing the process called "pollination". Wind could also help us humans on our activities such as kite-flying and windsurfing. It also helps the animals to smell their prey.
Look at that people that use the wind to do windsurfing.
Negative effects
Its could cause tornadoes, hurricane, heavy rains and also it could cause floods.
This are a picture of a town/city when there are tornadoes.

  • Land breeze and sea breeze
Wind is also formed when land and water are heated. Heating of land and water cause the formation of sea breeze at night and land breeze at day time.

That is all for now. Thank you for reading.