Show CLOUDS bigit MILES HIGH lecul ar t es attend ng and arced ng thunderstorms noted A great cumulous thunderhead cloud tower ng up on the horizon like a huge flamboyant iceberg is often higher than the highest alps would be if they were piled on top ot the himalayas it Is not unusual for these clouds to measure five sh and even eight miles fioti their flat dark base hov ering a mile or two above the world to their rounded gli bening summit splendid in the sunlight and in these eight miles the changes of tempera ture are as great as those over many thousand miles at the earth s surface these clouds contain strata of tern pera ture nan ow belts of freezing cold alternating with large distances of rainy mist and frozen snow and ice particles hailstones which are formed from a snow par icle that falls from the up per 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 forma alon 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 |