Amazing clouds made with wind

From swirling Lenticular clouds to pouch shaped Mammatus clouds these are some of the rarest formations known to meteorologists.

Clouds are visible mass of droplets, suspended in the atmosphere above the surface of the Earth or another planetary body.

Generally they consist of water droplets, ice crystals or a mixture of both, and the shapes of the various cloud forms are caused by a number of factors such as temperature, the ratio of water and ice, the altitude of the cloud and the windspeeds within it.

The exact forms are also governed by a complex interplay of wind, rising and falling air, and changes in humidity and density.

Classified into four categories (High Level, Mid-Level, Low-level and Vertically developed), meteorologists use clouds to predict climate and weather patterns and even studying the impact of global warming.

In fact, it is a rare but perfectly natural (and perfectly harmless, provided you do not try to fly through it in light aircraft) meteorological phenomenon.

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