What is Altocumulus?
A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These are shaded clouds that can be white or gray, forming a layer or patches. They have thin and translucent edges and can be observed at several different levels simultaneously. Altostratus clouds can change into altocumulus shapes during the day and persist throughout the day. They typically appear wispy and diffuse. In mid-latitudes, the cloud base is between 8,000 and 18,000 feet. This cloud type has subtypes such as altostratus castellanus or altostratus lenticularis, cumulogenitus, floccus, opacus, translucidus, undulatus, and Virga.
Schedule a Demo Today
A new era is starting with fundamentally new forecasting with unprecedented precision!
Contact UsGlossary
Conduction is the transfer of heat or electricity through a material without the material itself moving. This occurs when...
A cloud that develops from Cirrus, completely or partially covering the sky, creating a halo effect, thin, sheet-like, milky...
A polar vortex is a circulating mass of air in the atmosphere, typically found in polar regions. This rotating air mass occurs...
Indicates the amount of water the soil can absorb/retain through percolation. This capacity is around 7% in sandy soil and...
The expected rate of temperature decrease in an adiabatically rising air parcel when there is no heat exchange with the environment....
The lowest level of a given cloud or cloud layer in the atmosphere, relative to the observer's position above the ground.
A low-pressure area with converging winds, rotating counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern...
Anticyclones are areas of high atmospheric pressure that bring hot, dry weather in the summer and cold fronts in the winter.
A continental air mass is a large body of air that forms over land, characterized by dry conditions due to the lack of moisture...
The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...