I’m at 15,000 feet and descending slowly into New York City. I have about 20 minutes to get a real eyeful of clouds.
Big white puffy vertical masses, some going up a mile? More than a mile? Who can tell size. Here’s my question.
There were a lot of tendrils, whisps and tattered edges. Some were near or attached to large clouds, some floated nearby and others were just out there, not near a large cloud mass. I could see through a lot of them.
Are these clouds? Do they grow into larger masses? Do they somehow attach to large clouds? Do they dissipate back into the air around them without being producers of weather of any kind?
What are they? Is each odd-shaped whisp the seed of a larger cloud? Or, are they just scraps fallen away because of an errant thermal, or whatnot? How long do they exist in that seemingly very fragile state?
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