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l was sunbathing last summer when l took this photo from my garden about these wonderful formations.

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Cumulus clouds usually have a puffy cotton-like appearance, with noticeable vertical development and clearly defined edges. They can be found alone, in lines, or in clusters. Factors like instability, moisture, and temperature gradient, make cumulus clouds precursors of many other types of clouds, e.g cumulonimbus clouds. in rare cases these clouds can cause a tornado

Rain falls, often in grey streaks below the cloud, or in a dramatic arch of black cloud spreading out from the parent cloud. These large, precipitating cumulus clouds can extend through multiple levels of the atmosphere and are called cumulonimbus clouds.

Over the sea, cumulus clouds are normally found in regularly spaced lines. The best examples of these lines are found in the trade winds where they extend for many miles. These lines create a pattern in the vertical movement of air, causing it to roll horizontally. Between the lines of cloud are stronger, more gusty, and slightly veering winds; but beneath the lines of cloud, somewhat lighter and more backing winds prevail.

(Wikipedia)

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