Clouds Components MET

The higher up you are, the colder it is. Clouds begin as mainly water droplets (in the lower layers) and have an increasing percentage of water droplets freezing to ice crystals as you ascend. So middle layer (alto) clouds will be a mix, and upper (cirro) type clouds will be mainly ice crystals.

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