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    What Are Clouds?: Videos Links: How Fogs Are Formed: What Is Fog: How Clouds Form: Cloud Spotting Guide

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    Clouds are formed when water vapor in the air condenses into liquid water or ice particles around condensation nuclei like dust. Factors like temperature, pressure, air movement and moisture content determine when condensation occurs. Clouds are classified based on their appearance, with categories including stratus, cumulus and cirrus clouds. Fog forms via different processes like radiation cooling at night, warm air passing over colder surfaces, or evaporation of precipitation into cooler air near the ground. Understanding cloud and fog formation helps meteorologists predict weather patterns.

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    What Are Clouds?: Videos Links: How Fogs Are Formed: What Is Fog: How Clouds Form: Cloud Spotting Guide

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    Clouds are formed when water vapor in the air condenses into liquid water or ice particles around condensation nuclei like dust. Factors like temperature, pressure, air movement and moisture content determine when condensation occurs. Clouds are classified based on their appearance, with categories including stratus, cumulus and cirrus clouds. Fog forms via different processes like radiation cooling at night, warm air passing over colder surfaces, or evaporation of precipitation into cooler air near the ground. Understanding cloud and fog formation helps meteorologists predict weather patterns.

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    Clouds are formed when water vapor in the air condenses into liquid water or ice particles around condensation nuclei like dust. Factors like temperature, pressure, air movement and moisture content determine when condensation occurs. Clouds are classified based on their appearance, with categories including stratus, cumulus and cirrus clouds. Fog forms via different processes like radiation cooling at night, warm air passing over colder surfaces, or evaporation of precipitation into cooler air near the ground. Understanding cloud and fog formation helps meteorologists predict weather patterns.

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    What Are Clouds?: Videos Links: How Fogs Are Formed: What Is Fog: How Clouds Form: Cloud Spotting Guide

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    Clouds are formed when water vapor in the air condenses into liquid water or ice particles around condensation nuclei like dust. Factors like temperature, pressure, air movement and moisture content determine when condensation occurs. Clouds are classified based on their appearance, with categories including stratus, cumulus and cirrus clouds. Fog forms via different processes like radiation cooling at night, warm air passing over colder surfaces, or evaporation of precipitation into cooler air near the ground. Understanding cloud and fog formation helps meteorologists predict weather patterns.

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    WHAT ARE CLOUDS?

    A cloud is a visible mass of tiny particles of water or ice, or a mixture of both, suspended in the
    air.
    Cloud particles are about 5 to 75 micrometers (0.0005 to 0.008 cm/0.0002 to 0.003 in) in size,
    which explains why light, vertical currents can sustain them in the air.

    HOW ARE CLOUDS FORMED?

    Clouds are formed when water vapor, which is an invisible gas, condenses and turns into a
    liquid. This liquid collects on particles such as dust in the air (called condensation nuclei) and
    become visible. Factors that determine when condensation may occur are air temperature, air
    pressure at a given altitude, the movement of the air and its moisture content.
    Cloud formation can occur at warm and cold fronts, at the side of a mountain where air flows
    up and then cools as it rises higher into the atmosphere (called orographic uplift), and when
    warm air blows over a colder surface such as a cool body of water.

    CLOUD CLASSIFICATION
    The classification of clouds was first conceptualized by French naturalist Jean Lamarck in 1801.
    Two years later, in 1803, the English scientist Luke Howard created a classification which was
    later adopted by the International Meteorological Commission in 1929.
    The first scientific study of clouds began in 1803, when a method of cloud classification was
    devised by the British meteorologist Luke Howard. The next development was the publication
    in 1887 of a classification system that later formed the basis for the noted International Cloud
    Atlas (1896). This atlas, considerably revised and modified through the years (most recently in
    1956), is now used throughout the world.

    Videos links:

    How Fogs are Formed: https://youtu.be/Yd4XQD1MzSk

    What is fog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ2Xgn-E8WA

    How clouds form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q87Ekar3emA

    Cloud spotting guide: https://youtu.be/JaAz3lp8Keg


    How Fogs are Formed
    Radiation Fog
    This type of fog forms at night under clear skies with calm winds when heat absorbed by
    the earth’s surface during the day is radiated into space. As the earth’s surface
    continues to cool, provided a deep enough layer of moist air is present near the ground,
    the humidity will reach 100% and fog will form. Radiation fog varies in depth from 3 feet
    to about 1,000 feet and usually remains stationary. This type of fog can reduce visibility
    to near zero at times and make driving very hazardous.
    Valley fog is a type of radiation fog. When air along ridgetops and the upper slopes of
    mountains begins to cool after sunset, the air becomes dense and heavy and begins to
    drain down into the valley floors below. As the air in the valley floor continues to cool
    due to radiational cooling, the air becomes saturated and fog forms. Valley fog can be
    very dense at times. This type of fog tends to dissipate very quickly once the sun comes
    up and starts to evaporate the fog layer.
     

    Valley fog in Harrison County, Indiana.  Scott Taylor

     
    Advection Fog
    Advection fog often looks like radiation fog and is also the result of condensation.
    However, the condensation in this case is caused not by a reduction in surface
    temperature, but rather by the horizontal movement of warm moist air over a cold
    surface, such as warm moist air flowing over snow. Advection fog can sometimes be
    distinguished from radiation fog by its horizontal motion along the ground.
     

    Fog invading downtown Louisville from the Ohio River.  WHAS


     
     

    Freezing Fog
    Freezing fog occurs when water droplets remain in the liquid state until they come into
    contact with a surface upon which they can freeze. As a result, any object the freezing
    fog comes into contact with will become coated with ice. 
     
    Freezing fog in Jefferson Memorial Forest.  Tony Bright
     

    Evaporation or Mixing Fog


    This type of fog forms when sufficient water vapor is added to the air by evaporation
    and the moist air mixes with cooler, relatively drier air. The two common types are
    steam fog and frontal fog. Steam fog forms when cold air moves over warm water.
    When the cool air mixes with the warm moist air over the water, the moist air cools until
    its humidity reaches 100% and fog forms. This type of fog takes on the appearance of
    wisps of smoke rising off the surface of the water.
    The other type of evaporation fog is known as frontal fog. This type of fog forms when
    warm raindrops evaporate into a cooler drier layer of air near the ground. Once enough
    rain has evaporated into the layer of cool surface, the humidity of this air reaches 100%
    and fog forms. 
     

    Hail Fog
    Hail fog is an unusual type of fog that forms shortly after a heavy hailstorm.  The cold
    balls of ice fall into warm, very moist air near the surface.  As the hail accumulates on
    the ground, it cools the air just above the ground to the dew point, resulting in fog.  The
    fog forms when winds are light, and it usually quite patchy and shallow.
     

    Hail fog along Interstate 65 near Horse Cave, Kentucky.  Brian Fugiel


     
    Remember, whenever you drive into dense fog ALWAYS slow down. This will allow you
    to increase the distance between your car and any cars in front of you that you may not
    be able to see due to the thickness of the fog. It is also important to switch your
    headlights to low beams.

    Source:
    https://www.weather.gov/lmk/fog_tutorial#:~:text=Evaporation
    %20or%20Mixing%20Fog&text=Steam%20fog%20forms%20when
    %20cold,reaches%20100%25%20and%20fog%20forms.

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