Written and illustrated by Drey Upsher, Olivia Hite, Arlo Blanchard, And Elias Dyal.

Clouds: By Olivia Hite pg. 1-4 pg. 1: Introduction pg. 2: Basic Cloud Types pg. 3 and 4: Storm Clouds Precipitations: By Arlo Blanchard pg. 5-9 pg. 5: Snow pg. 6: Sleet pg. 7: Freezing Rain and Rain pg. 8: Hail Blizzards and Whiteouts: By Drey Upsher pg. 10-13 pg. 10: How They Form pg. 11: Classication pg. 12 and 13: Diagram Historic Snowstorms: By Elias Dyal pg. 14-17 (The Great Snowstorm of...) pg. 14: 1888 pg. 15: 1950 pg. 16: 2008 pg. 17: 1972 Other: pg. 18: About the Authors pg. 19: Glossary pg. 20 an 21: Works Cited

Everybody up! Were evaporating, I yell to my friends. We are water drops, and we just spent the night streaming down a hill. I guess I was getting a little warm... Now Im going to freeze! We are at the stratus layer, I say. Ive done this since the day I was created. It certainly isnt the easiest life. But it's the life for me.

Water cycle

I get to rest when I evaporate into a cirrus cloud. Cirrus clouds are thin wispy clouds. But to become part of a cirrus cloud, I have to freeze into ice. Not comfortable, as you can imagine. There are three well known cloud types. They are cirrus, cumulus, and stratus. Storm clouds include nimbostratus, cumulonimbus, and green clouds.
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Ive been so many types of storm clouds, but I still have yet to become a cumulonimbus. Still, I hate being a storm cloud. Something about being in a storm cloud makes your mood, well, stormy. Weve passed the alto layer. Now were in the cirrus layer, I yell. The three layers of clouds are cirrus, alto, and stratus. This chart shows some clouds classied by height:

Category
Cirrus

Height
18,000 ft and up

Clouds in Category
Cirrus, cirrostratus, and cirrocumulus Altostratus and altocumulus

Alto

6,500-18,000 ft

Stratus

6,500 ft and lower

Stratus, startocumulus, and nimbostratus

Cumulus clouds are not on this chart because there isnt a cumulus layer. But cumulus clouds are cumulus and cumulonimbus. Cumulus clouds are fun to be, but unfortunately, they can become cumulonimbus clouds easily.
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Hello? Is everybody listening? I tell everybody. We are about to be assigned a cloud type! You will be a good cumulonimbus cloud, the wind tells us. Muttering breaks out at that. I can tell Im not the only one who wanted to rest. Oh, well. At least Ive been all the storm clouds now, I think gloomily. Youll be joined by another group of water drops soon. Theyll expand this cloud upward like all cumulonimbus. Even more muttering starts up. No surprise there. Everyone hates being a storm cloud. The mood just changes. I hope that we rain before we become unpleasant. Maybe our mood has something to do with our dark coloring...

cumulonimbus cloud
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These storm clouds are known for their dark colors. Fractus clouds look like storm clouds. They are often mistaken for storm clouds. The tornadoes, hail, lightning, rainstorms, and snowstorms they are blamed for are actually caused by cumulonimbus clouds. I hope that Ill be sent down as snow! I like to be snow because you get to be made into other things like snowballs, snow forts, and snowmen. It all depends on the snow conditions. I want you to jump when I say go. Youll probably become snow, says the wind, pointing at my group. Go!

Snow Covered house

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I jump! I'm Forming into snow when there is moisture in the air and when it is below freezing. I change a lot when I fall because I crash into trees and also gain more snow.

The dryer the air is, the less complicated the snowake is. The more moisture there is, the more complicated the snowake. If you have heard that no two snowakes are alike, then that is almost true. There is about a 0.02% chance of seeing snow akes that are the same! As you can see this is a VERY unusual situation!

Hello here I am again! This time Im being formed into sleet, which is bad for you humans because it is super destructive. Scientists are debating whether sleet is partially melted ice or a combination of rain and snow. I only occur in winter when it is 32F or below. Ahhhhh! Scrunch! I just caused another accident because my brothers and I are so slippery when were sleet.

I am rain. You may think I am boring and dull but in truth I can fall 18 miles per hour without the help of wind. I am formed when a water particle smashes with another water particle. We turn into a small droplet. Then when a small droplet and another small droplet smash they become a bigger droplet, etc. I range from being 1/100inch-1/4inch in diameter. We only have as much water on the Earth as there is right now. Don't worry. The water goes through a water cycle.
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Hi, Im here again and you humans are in for some big problems because I am HAIL! I am the size of a golf ball and I am still growing. If you want to see how I am formed than...GO GOOGLE IT YOURSELF... just kidding all you have to do is look at this diagram. In this diagram you see me falling up.

Ahhh! splat!
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A couple of hours later we start to get blown around by the wind really fast. I know this is what causes a whiteout, basically a big blanket of snow falling in a heavy sheet.

Whiteout conditions make it nearly impossible for drivers on the road. First the roads are ne and then ten minutes later the roads are covered in snow ranging from two feet to six feet deep.
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This isnt going to be fun for the humans! Whiteout conditions limit visibility to three feet! Whiteouts are most easily formed by low cloud cover and lots and lots of moisture in the air.
First a blizzard happens. Wind and below-freezing temperatures cause snow to be blown around in a big wave. lastly a whiteout forms.

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THE GREAT BLIZZARD OF 1888 The Great Blizzard of 1888 was around Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Chesapeake Bay and all the way North to Maine. The blizzard brought 4050 inches of snow to eleven states! Many people were left trapped in their homes. Also, because of the horrible conditions, 400 people died. This storm lasted 72 hours, from March 11th through March 14th, and took everyone by surprise because it happened in Spring.

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The Great Appalachian Blizzard

The Great Appalachian blizzard was one of the worst storms that happened in American History. During the Appalachian storm of 1950, 353 people died. There was a total of 57 inches of snow, with 110 mph winds that lasted 6 days. 1 million people lost their electricity. There was 67 million dollars in damages. This snowstorm was one of the worst in history because of all the deaths and damage.

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Chinese Winter Storm

Help! I'm so cold in this car.

This terrible winter storm happened in Hunan Province and the Southern Provinces during January, 2008. 178 million people were caught in the storm while traveling during the Chinese New Year. The snow collapsed 223 thousand buildings and 129 people died. This was the worst storm China had seen in many years.

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The Great Blizzard of Iran

This storm happened February 9, 1972. Four thousand people died during this storm because of the cold and the awesome 26 feet of snow! Iran does not usually get snowstorms, so the people were not prepared to see this amount of snow. The snow was so deep that entire villages disappeared!

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Glossary:
Alto: (altoe) One of the three cloud layers. Cirrus: (seerus) One of the three main cloud types and one of the three cloud layers. Chesapeake (Chessapeek) The bay that is off the Atlantic ocean. It is surrounded by Maryland and Virginia Cumulus: (cuemuelus) One of the three main cloud types. Stratus (stratus) One the three main cloud types and one of the three cloud layers. Moisture (Moystchur) Water or another liquid that has formed into vapor. Particle (Partacal) A tiny portion of matter.

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