Clouds and precipitation

1. - Groups of water vapor together form the
clouds.
- There are three types of clouds:
1) Cumulus.
2) Stratus.
3) Cirrus.
Clouds

2. • -Puffy & white clouds that look like
cotton balls.
• -They often have a flat bottom.
• -This kind of clouds produces
precipitation.
(1) Cumulus clouds

3. • -Clouds form in layers.
• -The layers look like sheets or blankets.
• -They are often the lowest clouds in the
sky.
• -Fog is a stratus cloud.
• - Stratus clouds can
form precipitation.
(2) Stratus clouds

4. • -Clouds look thin, wispy or feathery.
• -They are made of tiny bits of ice.
• -Cirrus clouds are usually found very
high in the sky
(3) Cirrus clouds

5. PRECIPITATION
HailRain
Sleet Snow

6. • It's the liquid form of the rain.
Rain

7. • Sometimes rain falls from clouds as liquid
but freezes along the way.
• -The rain turns into flakes of ice.
• -This type of rain is sleet.
Sleet

8. • It is made of ice too.
• -The ice chunks are much larger
than sleet.
• -They are formed inside the tall
clouds of thunderstorm.
• -Some are the size of peas,
some are bigger than baseballs.
Hail

9. • When water vapour reaches a
temperature below 0˚C, it freezes into
snow.
• -Bits of snow collect into a cloud, when
they get too heavy, they fall as snow.
Snow