Ac floccus
/ 0 Comments / in Altocumulus, Medium LevelsClosely bundled altocumulus clouds with turrents at the top similar to the castellanus species but seemingly individual cloud clusters given away by seperate virga or precipitation shaft underneath each cloud packed closely together. The precipitation shaft is evaporating long before reaching the surface hence the white discontinuity. The first thumbnail of the weather sounding suggests that the clouds occured at an altitude of between 600mb and 500mb aka between 4.4km and 6km through slightly more moisture at that level of around 60% with a clear very dry and warm layer underneath allowing for quick evaporation of the precipitation falling underneath the isolated cloud species similar to a jellyfish. Analyzing the second and third thumbnails respresenting the satellite image and surface pressure chart respectively, it looked like those cloud formations were associated with mid-level thunderstorms over Libya brought about by a North African low pressure system of which a wave of cloud managed to reach the Maltese Islands. It must be pointed out that the photographed clouds were the only clouds observed in the sky at the time.
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