What's up with those weird clouds? Storm Team 10 explains
People across Southern New England were treated to interesting cloud formations on Wednesday as clouds at various heights in the atmosphere formed at the same time.
Most of the clouds at the lower levels were cumulus and stratus clouds.
Temperature (red line) and dew point (green line) are measured with height throughout the atmosphere. This is what we call an atmospheric sounding.
When they touch, relative humidity is 100 percent and clouds form.
Today, this happened at two levels in the atmosphere at the same time - lower and middle levels of the atmosphere.
The green line is away from the red line at 7,000 feet, so the dry air prevented clouds from rising any further.
The result was clouds that looked like they were flattened at the top because the air stopped rising due to dry air overhead.
Storm Team 10 Chief Meteorologist Mark Searles explains below:
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