Weather Alerts for California
1. Air Quality Alert for: Calabasas and Agoura Hills; Eastern San Fernando Valley; Eastern San Gabriel Mountains; Eastern Santa Monica Mountains Recreational Area; Interstate 5 Corridor; Los Angeles County Beaches; Los Angeles County Inland Coast including Downtown Los Angeles; Los Angeles County San Gabriel Valley; Santa Clarita Valley; Santa Susana Mountains; Western San Fernando Valley; Western San Gabriel Mountains and Highway 14 Corridor; Western Santa Monica Mountains Recreational Area
2. Air Quality Alert for: Calabasas and Agoura Hills; Eastern San Fernando Valley; Eastern San Gabriel Mountains; Interstate 5 Corridor; Los Angeles County Inland Coast including Downtown Los Angeles; Los Angeles County San Gabriel Valley; Santa Clarita Valley; Santa Susana Mountains; Western San Fernando Valley; Western San Gabriel Mountains and Highway 14 Corridor
3. Air Quality Alert for: Calabasas and Agoura Hills; Eastern San Fernando Valley; Eastern San Gabriel Mountains; Interstate 5 Corridor; Los Angeles County Inland Coast including Downtown Los Angeles; Los Angeles County San Gabriel Valley; Santa Clarita Valley; Santa Susana Mountains; Western San Fernando Valley; Western San Gabriel Mountains and Highway 14 Corridor
4. Air Quality Alert for: Calabasas and Agoura Hills; Eastern San Fernando Valley; Eastern San Gabriel Mountains; Interstate 5 Corridor; Los Angeles County Inland Coast including Downtown Los Angeles; Los Angeles County San Gabriel Valley; Santa Clarita Valley; Santa Susana Mountains; Western San Fernando Valley; Western San Gabriel Mountains and Highway 14 Corridor
5. Air Quality Alert for: San Bernardino and Riverside County Valleys-The Inland Empire; San Bernardino County Mountains; Riverside County Mountains; Santa Ana Mountains and Foothills; Coachella Valley; San Gorgonio Pass Near Banning; Orange County Inland
6. Extreme Heat Warning for: Coachella Valley; San Diego County Deserts; San Gorgonio Pass Near Banning
7. Extreme Heat Warning for: Joshua Tree NP West; Joshua Tree NP East; Imperial County Southwest; Salton Sea; Chuckwalla Mountains; Imperial County Southeast; Imperial County West; Imperial Valley; Chiriaco Summit; Palo Verde Valley; Chuckwalla Valley
8. Extreme Heat Watch for: Del Norte Interior; Northern Humboldt Interior; Southern Humboldt Interior
9. Extreme Heat Watch for: Western Siskiyou County; Central Siskiyou County; Eastern Curry County and Josephine County; Jackson County
10. Heat Advisory for: Northern Trinity; Southern Trinity; Northeastern Mendocino Interior; Northern Lake County; Southern Lake County
11. Heat Advisory for: Northwestern Mendocino Interior; Southeastern Mendocino Interior
12. Heat Advisory for: Riverside County Mountains; San Diego County Mountains
13. Heat Advisory for: San Bernardino and Riverside County Valleys-The Inland Empire
14. Heat Advisory for: San Diego County Inland Valleys
15. Heat Advisory for: Shasta Lake Area / Northern Shasta County; Burney Basin / Eastern Shasta County; Northern Sacramento Valley; Central Sacramento Valley; Mountains Southwestern Shasta County to Western Colusa County; Northeast Foothills/Sacramento Valley; Western Plumas County/Lassen Park
16. Wind Advisory for: Santa Barbara County Southwestern Coast; Santa Ynez Mountains Western Range
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Weather Topic: What are Contrails?
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Next Topic: Cumulonimbus Clouds
A contrail is an artificial cloud, created by the passing of an
aircraft.
Contrails form because water vapor in the exhaust of aircraft engines is suspended
in the air under certain temperatures and humidity conditions. These contrails
are called exhaust contrails.
Another type of contrail can form due to a temporary reduction in air pressure
moving over the plane's surface, causing condensation.
These are called aerodynamic contrails.
When you can see your breath on a cold day, it is also because of condensation.
The reason contrails last longer than the condensation from your breath is
because the water in contrails freezes into ice particles.
Next Topic: Cumulonimbus Clouds
Weather Topic: What are Cumulus Clouds?
Home - Education - Cloud Types - Cumulus Clouds
Next Topic: Drizzle
Cumulus clouds are fluffy and textured with rounded tops, and
may have flat bottoms. The border of a cumulus cloud
is clearly defined, and can have the appearance of cotton or cauliflower.
Cumulus clouds form at low altitudes (rarely above 2 km) but can grow very tall,
becoming cumulus congestus and possibly the even taller cumulonimbus clouds.
When cumulus clouds become taller, they have a greater chance of producing precipitation.
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