{"id":3374,"date":"2023-02-13T11:55:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T06:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3374"},"modified":"2025-03-26T12:02:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T06:32:38","slug":"what-are-mammatus-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-are-mammatus-clouds\/","title":{"rendered":"What are Mammatus Clouds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Mammatus Clouds:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Mammatus clouds refer to distinctive cloud formations that are separated by a bulge or protrusion emerging from the base of another cloud.<\/li>\n<li>They are usually formed in association with large <strong>cumulonimbus clouds.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Typically, <strong>turbulence within the cumulonimbus<\/strong> cloud will cause Mammatus to form, especially on the underside of the projecting anvil as it rapidly descends to lower levels.<\/li>\n<li>Mammatus clouds generally form in the most unstable cumulonimbus, meaning that there is also a chance of hail, heavy rain and lightning in the vicinity, and if the air is cold enough during winter they can produce snow.<a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap230212.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>l<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Cloud seeding?<\/h3>\n<p>Cloud seeding is a weather modification technique that improves a cloud\u2019s ability to produce rain or snow by introducing tiny ice nuclei into certain types of subfreezing clouds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap230212.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Astronomy Picture of the Day<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mammatus Clouds are usually formed in association with large cumulonimbus clouds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}