Mind-Blowing Cloud Formations You Probably Haven't Seen Before

Anvil Clouds: What is an anvil cloud? Sometimes a mass of warm air can rise to such a height that it encompasses the entire lower layer of the earth's atmosphere (that is, the troposphere). Such monsters grow to 15-18 km up. At an altitude of about 15 kilometers (in different latitudes differently), there is the tropopause. The tropopause is the boundary between the troposphere and the stratosphere. In the troposphere, located below, the temperature gradually decreases with increasing altitude (0.5-0.7 ° C every 100 meters). In the tropopause, the temperature slide noticeably slows down, to about 0.2 ° C / 100 m.