An Iowa woman's photo from 2006 have scientists and others debating whether a new cloud type has been discovered. There currently are only three main cloud types: cumulus, stratus, and cirrus. One group is working with the Royal Meteorological Society to prepare a case for the World Meteorological Organization to get them classified as a new type, while researchers and scientists in the other camp say they are another form of cumulus and have been documented before. The AP article can be found here: http://cli.gs/0hmhUU What are your thoughts? Leave the cloud types alone, or add a 4th cloud type (which might be analogous to adding a planet in the solar system)?
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
New cloud type?
An Iowa woman's photo from 2006 have scientists and others debating whether a new cloud type has been discovered. There currently are only three main cloud types: cumulus, stratus, and cirrus. One group is working with the Royal Meteorological Society to prepare a case for the World Meteorological Organization to get them classified as a new type, while researchers and scientists in the other camp say they are another form of cumulus and have been documented before. The AP article can be found here: http://cli.gs/0hmhUU What are your thoughts? Leave the cloud types alone, or add a 4th cloud type (which might be analogous to adding a planet in the solar system)?
It's not a new cloud type, it's just being seen more often now...which isn't surprising with things like phones on cell cameras.
ReplyDeletehttp://cloudyandcool.com/2009/06/16/new-cloud-altocumulus-undulatus-asperatus/
--Paul, http://cloudyandcool.com
Thanks for the link Paul. Good post on it and I'll be looking at the reference you posted in your blog as well.
ReplyDelete--Erik
For those interested, here is the link to the Cloud Appreciation Society's article on the "new" cloud type, along with more pictures:
ReplyDeletehttp://cloudappreciationsociety.org/name-that-cloud/
--Erik, MemphisWeather.net