Pancake clouds are a type of cloud that forms in a flat, elongated shape parallel to mountain ranges. They occur when moist air is pushed up the side of mountains by the wind, causing water vapor to condense into clouds. Pancake clouds do not move much because they are trapped between pockets of calm air above and below. They form at one end as air moves over the mountains and dissipate at the other end. Sometimes multiple layers of pancake clouds appear due to changes in air temperature and moisture levels as the air flows over and past the mountain peaks.
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Pancake Clouds
1. Pancake Clouds
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3. DEfinition
Pancake clouds is one kind of clouds that
looks like a pancake, generally in a flat
elongated shape stretching parallel to the
mountain range.
4. Pancake Clouds also commonly
called ufo clouds or lentikuler
clouds. While in Java, pancake
clouds called "Caping Gunung"
because it is shaped like a hat
typical Javanese farmers called
"Caping" and be above of the
mountain. Usually, the colors of
clouds pancake is white, but some
are reddish blue because of
sunlight
5. Descriptive
Pancake clouds occur when the wind blows
over the mountains and moist air pushing up
on the height of the cooler, where water vapor
condenses. Pancake clouds not move like
other clouds because trapped in pockets of
relatively calm air just below the wind and the
flow just above the warmer air below. A
Pancake cloud actually is formed on one end
(front end) and disappeared on the other
hand.
6. Sometimes pancake clouds look layered
because the air flowing over the mountain
getting pushed up higher as it goes up and
over the top. The moisture content and initial
temperature are just right so that the
moisture condenses from a vapor to small
particles at the higher altitude. When the
moving air moves past the peak and comes
down again, the particles evaporate back to
vapor.