Emery County Progress | 1904-09-03 | Page 4 | Clouds Eight Miles High

CLOUDS EIGHT MILES HIGH es attend ng and preceding thunderstorms noted A great cumulous thunderhead cloud towering up on the horizon like a huge flamboyant iceberg Is often higher than the highest alps would be if they were piled on top of the himalayas it Is not unusual for these clouds to measure five six and even eight miles from their flat dark base hov ering a mile or two above the world to their rounded glistening summit splendid in the sunlight and in these eight miles the changes of tempera ture are as great as those over many thousand miles ef the earth s surface these clouds contain strata of tern pera ture narrow belts of freezing cold alternating with large distances of rainy mist and frozen snow and ice particles hailstones which are formed from a snow icie that tails horn the upper strata and is frozen hard in the freezing belt and coated with added ice on the wet belt are often found with a series of layers in their tion showing that they have passed through this succession of cloud stra ta more than once on their way from the upper air to the earth