My Favorite Kind Of Clouds

I love clouds that look like puffy white cotton balls floating in the blue sky and sun shining on them  they almost have a 3D affect as they pop out at you .

                                    Did you know these clouds are called Cumulus clouds .

 Cumulus  clouds are clouds which have flat bases and are often described as "puffy", "cotton-like" or "fluffy" in appearance. Their name derives from the Latin cumulo-, meaning heap or pile  Cumulus clouds are low-level clouds, generally less than 2,000 m (6,600 ft) in altitude unless they are the more vertical cumulus congestus form. Cumulus clouds may appear by themselves, in lines, or in clusters.

 Cumulus clouds are often precursors of other types of clouds, such as cumulonimbus, when influenced by weather factors such as instability, moisture, and temperature gradient. Normally, cumulus clouds produce little or no precipitation, but they can grow into the precipitation-bearing congestus or cumulonimbus clouds. Cumulus clouds can be formed from water vapor, super cooled water droplets, or ice crystals, depending upon the ambient temperature. They come in many distinct subforms, and generally cool the earth by reflecting the incoming solar radiation. Cumulus clouds are part of the larger category of free-convective cumuliform clouds, which include cumulonimbus clouds.

                            
                             I find these kind of clouds fascinating to watch and photograph .

                                                                       Until next time

                                       Country Gal

                                                                       
                      

 

An Early April Fool On Us

Well it is April now and this last weekend of March gave us an early April fool as we had lots of rain on Saturday and then over night snow and cold again, why just last week Miggs and I were enjoying the weather and warm sunshine sitting outside and doing a bit of yard work as the temps hit 10C OR 50F  .

 Even the Robins were happy and collecting worms from the ground and all the birds have started making their nests .

                               But then as of Saturday night BAM! WAM ! This happened .

We woke up to snow , not just a dusting either but snow that covered the grass . Well they did say March was to go out like a lion and that it did . 
But today April 1st it is sunny and that snow out there is melting fast as the sun has quite a bit of warmth to it and getting warmer and stronger every day . 

 Earlier this morning Miggs was enjoying the coolness under her and the suns warmth on top lol . The snow in this pic is almost all gone already with in a few hours of sun shining on it so there is an up side to all this lol .

As the week goes on our temps are to rise and the sun is to shine and it looks better and better as this month of April  moves along . 


                                                    Happy April 
        
                                                             Until next time 
                                                    

                                   Country Gal