Cloud Formations

(Cc flo) Cirrocumulus floccus with (Ci) Cirrus above
High level 6000 m (above 20,000 feet)

Wider view of first photograph
  

Presently, I am working on a cloud formation photograph file. It is not an easy project. The classification I've given for the clouds in the photographs is my best guess from looking at several pictures online as well as knowing they are high clouds.

There is a winter storm watch in this Vermont, New England area for Friday night into Saturday night with as much as 7 inches of possible snow, and difficult travel expected. Winter is going out with a bang or Spring arriving with a take that to winter? 

Doesn't matter. It is going to snow.

 

Patterns of Water & Wind

Wind & Water Patterns

Cirrocumulus Stratiformis

Cloud Type Identification

Cirrocumulus Stratiformis?
4:03 PM EDT Vermont

Clouds beautify the skies.

Searching the Internet to identify the formation you see above you can be frustrating. I have yet to find a website with a simple page of captioned photographs as examples of each cloud type. 

The formation appears to flow from the north, easterward in front of stratocumulus clouds.

Stratocumulus Clouds
5:19 PM EDT Vermont

A Cold Cloud

Cold Cloud Steam in February 2023

The clouds, bottom and lower right in the photograph, happens over water when the water temperature is warmer than the ambient air. The water in the distance, I believe, is Lewis Creek, Ferrisburgh, Vermont. The pink are higher elevation clouds. On Saturday, the temperatures outdoors were minus zero Fahrenheit.*

Sorry the picture isn't sharper. It was taken with my phone on zoom. Lewis Creek is 1 or 2 miles from my location.

* Of all the words I have to look up the spelling, one of the most difficult, Fahrenheit, I remember 99.9% of the time.