Weather Alerts for Colorado
1. Air Quality Alert for: Conejos, CO; Rio Grande, CO; Alamosa, CO; Costilla, CO; Saguache, CO
2. Fire Weather Watch for: Southern Front Range Including Sangre De Cristo Mountains/Wet Mountains/La Veta Pass; Otero County Including La Junta and Western Comanche Grasslands; Eastern Las Animas County Including Pinon Canyon
3. Freeze Warning for: Central Gunnison and Uncompahgre River Basin
4. Freeze Warning for: Elbert/Central and East Douglas Counties Above 6000 Feet
5. Freeze Warning for: Grand Valley; Debeque to Silt Corridor; Arches/Grand Flat
6. Freeze Warning for: Northern El Paso County/Monument Ridge/Rampart Range Below 7500 Ft
7. Frost Advisory for: Colorado Springs Vicinity/Southern El Paso County/Rampart Range Below 7400 Ft
8. Frost Advisory for: Larimer County Below 6000 Feet/Northwest Weld County; Boulder And Jefferson Counties Below 6000 Feet/West Broomfield County; North Douglas County Below 6000 Feet/Denver/West Adams and Arapahoe Counties/East Broomfield County; Northeast Weld County; Central and South Weld County; Morgan County; Central and East Adams and Arapahoe Counties; North and Northeast Elbert County Below 6000 Feet/North Lincoln County; Southeast Elbert County Below 6000 Feet/South Lincoln County; Washington County
9. Red Flag Warning for: Fremont County Including Canon City/Howard/Texas Creek; Baca County Including Springfield and Eastern Comanche Grasslands
10. Red Flag Warning for: San Luis Valley Including Alamosa/Del Norte/Fort Garland/Saguache
11. Red Flag Warning for: San Luis Valley Including Alamosa/Del Norte/Fort Garland/Saguache
12. Red Flag Warning for: Southern Front Range Including Sangre De Cristo Mountains/Wet Mountains/La Veta Pass; Otero County Including La Junta and Western Comanche Grasslands; Eastern Las Animas County Including Pinon Canyon
13. Red Flag Warning for: Yuma; Kit Carson County; Cheyenne; Cheyenne; Rawlins; Decatur; Norton; Sherman; Thomas; Sheridan; Graham; Wallace; Logan; Gove; Greeley; Wichita; Dundy; Hitchcock; Red Willow
14. Wind Advisory for: Central Colorado River Basin
15. Wind Advisory for: Central Gunnison and Uncompahgre River Basin
16. Wind Advisory for: Four Corners/Upper Dolores River; Animas River Basin; San Juan River Basin
17. Wind Advisory for: Grand Valley; Debeque to Silt Corridor; Arches/Grand Flat
18. Wind Advisory for: Upper Gunnison River Valley
19. Winter Weather Advisory for: Elkhead and Park Mountains; Flat Tops
20. Winter Weather Advisory for: Gore and Elk Mountains/Central Mountain Valleys
21. Winter Weather Advisory for: West Jackson and West Grand Counties Above 9000 Feet; South and East Jackson/Larimer/North and Northeast Grand/Northwest Boulder Counties Above 9000 Feet; South and Southeast Grand/West Central and Southwest Boulder/Gilpin/Clear Creek/Summit/North and West Park Counties Above 9000 Feet
22. Winter Weather Advisory for: Western Mosquito Range/East Lake County Above 11000 Ft; Leadville Vicinity/Lake County Below 11000 Ft; Eastern Sawatch Mountains above 11000 Ft
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Weather Topic: What are Wall Clouds?
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Next Topic: Altocumulus Clouds
A wall cloud forms underneath the base of a cumulonimbus cloud,
and can be a hotbed for deadly tornadoes.
Wall clouds are formed by air flowing into the cumulonimbus clouds, which can
result in the wall cloud descending from the base of the cumulonimbus cloud, or
rising fractus clouds which join to the base of the storm cloud as the wall cloud
takes shape.
Wall clouds can be very large, and in the Northern Hemisphere they generally
form at the southern edge of cumulonimbus clouds.
Next Topic: Altocumulus Clouds
Weather Topic: What are Altostratus Clouds?
Home - Education - Cloud Types - Altostratus Clouds
Next Topic: Cirrocumulus Clouds
Altostratus clouds form at mid to high-level altitudes
(between 2 and 7 km) and are created by a warm, stable air mass which causes
water vapor
to condense as it rise through the atmosphere. Usually altostratus clouds are
featureless sheets characterized by a uniform color.
In some cases, wind punching through the cloud formation may give it a waved
appearance, called altostratus undulatus. Altostratus clouds
are commonly seen with other cloud formations accompanying them.
Next Topic: Cirrocumulus Clouds