Show Storm n a a Round Merry-Go-Round Traveling on Flat Car CarA A storm is not just a peaceful lit lit- little littIe little tle tIe flock of clouds traveling along alongside alongside alongside side by side like sheep it was ex ex- explained explained ex- ex explained recently by David Green Green- Greenfield Greenfield Greenfield field of the United States weather bureau staff in Los Angeles Rather a storm is more aptly compared with a round merry-go-round a round merry-go-round traveling along on a flatcar if you will vill with the whirling horses represented by the clouds spinning in toward ward t the storm center in a counter clockwise direction The average rainstorm probably moves along at somewhere be 20 and 60 GO miles an hour hou- said Greenfield but the winds moving toward the center of those storms can have any velocity up to a hun hun- hundred hundred bund dred miles an hour or higher Speaking generally the funda fundamental fundamental mental types of cloud are the cirrus the stratus and the cumulus al- al although al although though we usually have many varia varia- variations variations variations of them during a rainy spell Cirrus clouds are the thin feathery feath feath- feathery feathery ery formations at three miles eleva eleva- elevation elevation elevation tion and higher Their speed can caa be anywhere from zero up to miles an hour or so depending upon whether thoy they are in an air mass na that's moving Roughly speaking cirrus clouds usually precede a storm by a day or so |