On a sunny day, the sun’s radiation heats the land, which in turn heats the air just above it. This warmed air rises by convection and forms Cumulus. These “fair weather” clouds look like cotton wool.

Cumulus clouds are clouds which have flat bases and are often described as “puffy”, “cotton-like” or “fluffy” in appearance.

: a rounded mass of cumulus or cumulonimbus cloud often appearing before a thunderstorm.

Stratocumulus clouds are low, puffy and gray in color. They tend to form in lumpy rows. Sometimes you can see blue sky in between them, but others might be mushed together. These stratocumulus clouds look like cotton balls in the sky!

On an average, these clouds form at an altitude ranging between 8,000 ft. to 20,000 ft., but their formation at a much lower altitude is also quite common. The average lifespan of a cumulus cloud is less than one hour, after which it either turns to a cumulonimbus cloud or tends to disintegrate.

Clouds are composed of liquid suspended water droplets in about a 100% RH environment. The three primary ways that clouds dissipate is by (1) the temperature increasing, (2) the cloud mixing with drier air, or (3) the air sinking within the cloud. Some environmental air does mix into the cloud mass.

The simple answer is, clouds can travel for hundreds of miles in one day, but it just depends on where they formed in the atmosphere. Low clouds can form as low as 5,000 feet, where other clouds, such as cirrus, form at 30,000+ feet. The altitude makes all the difference.

cirrus clouds

When the wind is absent or feeble, clouds may remain at a place and cause rain there if the clouds are rain bearing. The clouds move with the atmosphere, which moves with the earth, just like a helium balloon will move with you in a car rather than move rearward when you are moving forward.

A rainbow is light reflecting and refracting off water particles in the air, such as rain or mist. The water particles and refracted light that form the rainbow you see can be miles away and are too distant to touch. And, if you get out of this angle altogether, the rainbow just disappears.

What is at the end of a rainbow? Answer: w.

Kauai, Hawaii Hawaii is known as the ‘Rainbow State,’ so you’re guaranteed to see stunning rainbows across the chain of islands. Kauai is a particularly rainy island and is home to Mount Waialeale, one of the wettest spots on earth.

The mythical “end of the rainbow” was found Friday afternoon in North Carolina, near the town of Thomasville. Video of the elusive spot was posted on Facebook by photographer Katelyn Sebastian of Winston-Salem, revealing the rainbow led straight to Interstate 85, about 80 miles northeast of Charlotte.

Because finding the true end of a rainbow is about as unlikely as stumbling across an unclaimed cauldron of gold doubloons. Rainbows are formed when water droplets in the atmosphere refract, or bend, sunlight in just the right circumstances.

This includes tales of leprechauns and pots of gold at the end of a rainbow. According to legend, leprechauns found the abandoned gold and buried it again so no human could ever find it. The old folktales tell us that there is a pot of gold hidden where the end of any rainbow touches the earth.

it’s possible that it was actually raining without reaching the ground. All we need for a rainbow is sun going through some form of water, even if that doesn’t always reach the ground… All we need for a rainbow is sun going through some form of water, even if that doesn’t always reach the ground.

He coined the idea that there are seven colours in a spectrum: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet (ROYGBIV).

Indigo is a rich color between blue and violet on the visible spectrum, it’s a dark purplish blue. Dark denim is indigo as is Indigo dye. It’s a cool, deep color and also a natural one. True Indigo dye is extracted from tropical plants as a fermented leaf solution and mixed with lye, pressed into cakes and powdered.