Mind-Blowing Cloud Formations You Probably Haven't Seen Before

Various cloud formations might be one of the most beautiful and romantic sights in nature. Still, these masses of liquid droplets is also a complex and scientifically interesting natural phenomenon. The interesting fact is that regardless of the shape and the looks of the cloud, they’re all made of the same thing – condensed water or ice. When the sun heats the ground, warm air starts to evaporate and rise towards the sky. Once these water vapor particles cluster together, a cloud is formed.

Anvil Clouds: What is an anvil cloud? Sometimes a mass of warm air can rise to such a height that it encompasses the entire lower layer of the earth's atmosphere (that is, the troposphere). Such monsters grow to 15-18 km up. At an altitude of about 15 kilometers (in different latitudes differently), there is the tropopause. The tropopause is the boundary between the troposphere and the stratosphere. In the troposphere, located below, the temperature gradually decreases with increasing altitude (0.5-0.7 ° C every 100 meters). In the tropopause, the temperature slide noticeably slows down, to about 0.2 ° C / 100 m.