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Get a pencil and use the grid below to draw Sunray
Bear sleeping on a cloud as shown. The grids will
help you to line everything up. Keep practicing and
having fun!
By Erika Enigk
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H
ave you ever looked
at puffy white clouds
and imagined what it
would be like to bounce
on them? As fun as it sounds,
clouds are actually just water!
How clouds are made
Clouds are made through the
movement and temperature
of air. When warm air rises, it
cools down. Warm air can hold
more moisture, so as it cools,
the moisture turns into water
droplets or ice, which form a
cloud. When the cloud gets too
heavy (if the wind doesn’t blow
it away), that moisture falls
in the form of rain or snow.
Not-so-stormy weather
Although clouds are often
associated with rain, not all
clouds bring bad weather. Cirrus clouds, which look like long
streaks across the sky, generally
mean nice weather. They are
high in the sky and made of ice.
Cumulus clouds are the puffy
ones you might have imagined
bouncing on. And while you
know by now that you couldn’t
do that, clouds of all types
might cause you to bounce if
you’re flying through or over
them. In fact, the puffier the
cloud, the bouncier your flight
could be. If you’re flying over
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flat clouds, you might have
a nice, smooth flight, even if
the weather is bad below.
But then, the storm rolls in
Imagine watching cumulus
clouds roll by and then spotting a large puffy cloud with a
flat top. That’s a cumulonimbus cloud, and those usually
bring severe weather including heavy rain, snow, lightning
and even tornadoes. If you
want to see which direction the
storm is moving, look at the
top of the cloud for the point.
Cumulonimbus clouds usually
point to where they’re going.
Other clouds simply look
dreary and bring mist and drizzle. Stratus clouds are the ones
that turn the whole sky gray.
When they combine with other
clouds, they make cumulostratus and bring a little rain, or
nimbostratus, which bring rain
or snow that falls continuously.
Perhaps the scariest clouds
are green clouds. No one is sure
why they’re the color they are,
but when green clouds roll in,
it’s almost certain there will be
severe weather, like a tornado.
So what are you waiting for? Go outside and look
at the sky. What will the
weather be like today?
Activity — Make a cloud in a jar
You’ll need:
• A glass jar
with a lid
• ¼ cup of
boiling water
(ask an adult
for help)
• A can or
bottle of
hairspray
• Ice
1. Have an adult pour the hot water
into the jar. swirl it so that it heats
up the sides of the jar.
2. turn the lid of the jar upside
down and use it as a small container to put a few cubes of ice
into. Rest it on top of the jar for a
few seconds.
3. take it off and quickly squirt in
some hairspray. Put the lid, with
the ice resting in it, back on top of
the jar (upside-down, so the ice
doesn’t fall in).
4. Watch the cloud form inside the
jar. When it is fully formed, take the
lid off and watch the cloud escape.
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By Mark Marderosian
Plain Community Branch 10th Anniversary
Community Celebration
Saturday, October 15 | 10 am–2 pm
Plain Community Branch | 1803 Schneider St NE, Canton
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