Clouds: How clouds are formed - Cloud classification - Identifying cloud types - Predicting the weather - All You Need to Know in One Concise Manual

by Storm Dunlop

Made up of tiny water droplets or ice crystals, and encasing our planet in a protective layer, clouds are an important part of Earth’s weather, and have inspired millions of hours of sky watching around the world.  

Clouds celebrates every aspect of clouds, including how they are formed, their different types, how they help predict the weather, and how they are transformed by geography, climate and the seasons. Offering a clear scientific explanation to classification and identification, the book will also include cloud myths and legends, quotes from world literature, and beautiful photographs of every kind of cloud, from Cumulonimbus to Stratus. It will also include the truly rare and amazing formations only recently identified, such as Asperitas and the Morning Glory roll cloud. 

Highly illustrated with directory photographs and beautiful skyscapes, this is a lay person’s guide to understanding, recognising and interpreting clouds, written by astronomer and meteorology expert Storm Dunlop.

Genres: Geography

136 pages, Hardcover

Published April 23, 2019

Reviews

[Andrew · Rating 4 out of 5]

Clouds: How clouds are formed - Cloud classification - Identifying cloud types - Predicting the weather - All you need to know in one concise manual, by Storm Dunlop, is a fun little manual on cloud and cloud identification. I will admit, I know almost nothing about clouds, and after reading this, I feel more familiar wit the types of clouds and why they are formed. This book was particularly great because it offers factual, easy to digest information on clouds, and the air-mass movements that cause them, as well as some of the rarer clouds that are formed from waterfalls, evaporation over forests, and plane trails. This was a fun little book to read, and would make a great companion manual for the book shelf if cloud watching or painting is a hobby. Great for those who want to learn about clouds too.

[Andy Hickman · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Clouds: How clouds are formed" - by Storm Dunlop
On one hand this is an all-conclusive definitive book on understanding clouds.
On the other hand, I still can't figure out what cloud I am looking at when gazing at the sky. The definitions are hard to grasp. ****

But some cool things I learnt:
• Stratus opacus is thick cloud that completely hides the moon, and may appear dark blue-grey or very heavy. (p39,56)
• Stratus translucidus is a thin outline forming a coronal display in the thin cloud. (p59)
• Stratocumulus opacus is when the moon only sneaks through the gaps between clouds, otherwise completely hidden. (p63)
• Thunderstorms occur in cumulonimbus clouds. (p114)