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Stratocumulus versus altocumulus mixup after 40 years of looking up
Last Tuesday I was parked at a rest stop on I-70 near Topeka and saw this patchwork of gray puffs that I always called 'bumpy clouds.' Turns out I had been mixing up stratocumulus and altocumulus this whole time. The giveaway was the size of the individual clumps relative to my outstretched fist at arm's length. Anyone else have a similar cloud identification blind spot that took decades to correct?
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blaked7929d ago
Ha, same here! I called them “sheep clouds” for thirty years before somebody corrected me.
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