{"id":57241,"date":"2025-05-20T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.snowtrex.de\/magazin\/?p=32047"},"modified":"2025-06-26T14:34:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T12:34:13","slug":"mountain-weather-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snowtrex.co.uk\/magazine\/interviews-reports\/mountain-weather-clouds\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain weather: What clouds reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every winter sports enthusiast knows what it’s like: getting up in the morning, going to the window, carefully pulling the curtains aside and thinking: “Hopefully good skiing weather today”. And if it’s not exactly glorious sunshine, the view of the sky can sometimes be puzzling. Because when it’s cloudy, the question arises: How are these clouds to be understood? SnowTrex<\/a> explains exactly what the different types of clouds reveal about the current mountain weather and what they mean for skiing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Clouds are simply part of the weather in the Alps, even in winter<\/div>\n <\/div > \n

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\n What are clouds?<\/span><\/a>Weather with stratus clouds<\/span><\/a>Weather with rain clouds<\/span><\/a>Weather with stratocumulus clouds<\/span><\/a>Weather with storm clouds<\/span><\/a>Weather with fleecy clouds<\/span><\/a>Weather with foehn clouds<\/span><\/a>Weather with mammatus clouds<\/span><\/a>Weather with veil clouds<\/span><\/a>Weather with feather clouds<\/span><\/a>FAQ’s on clouds and mountain weather<\/span><\/a>\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Cloud type<\/strong><\/th>Altitude<\/strong><\/th>Weather conditions<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Layered\/stratus clouds<\/td>0.0 to 5 km<\/td>Drizzle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rain clouds<\/td>0.1 to 6 km<\/td>Rain\/snow<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cluster\/cumulus clouds<\/td>0.5 to 2.5 km<\/td>Cloudy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Storm clouds<\/td>0.5 to 11 km<\/td>Thunderstorm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fleecy clouds<\/td>2.5 to 12 km<\/td>Rain\/snow<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lenticular clouds<\/td>3 to 6 km<\/td>Foehn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mammatus clouds<\/td>5 to 10 km<\/td>Rain\/thunderstorm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Veil\/cirrostratus clouds<\/td>6 to 10 km<\/td>Approaching rain<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feather\/cirrus clouds<\/td>6 to 12 km<\/td>Clear\/sunny<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

What are clouds?<\/h2>\n

Clouds are formed when water droplets adhere to small particles in cold layers of air. This makes them visible in the sky as condensed water vapour. As clouds can be at different heights, they can be roughly divided into four categories: low clouds (0 to 3 km above the ground), medium-high clouds (2 to 7 km), high clouds (7 to 12 km) and clouds that extend vertically over several of these “storeys”. Clouds, which are not always rain clouds, always take on the ambient temperature, making them very cold at high altitudes, unlike at ground level.<\/p>\n

They can also be categorised according to their appearance: Cumulus clouds, for example, popularly known as fleecy clouds, are formed by rising air. Stratus clouds, also known as stratus clouds, are formed when warm air pushes over cold air. But what do the different types of clouds actually mean? And what should winter sports enthusiasts be prepared for when they see veil clouds in the sky?<\/p>\n

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\u2601\ufe0f What is a Cloud? Crash Course Geography #10<\/div><\/div>
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