How high is cloudbase?
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The message of the clouds – Lesson 3: How high is cloudbase?

Become a weather guru – learn to predict the height of cloudbase for the day ahead

29 November, 2024, by Bastienne Wentzel

This is part of the Masterclass: Understanding the Sky – The message of the clouds

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to calculate how high cloudbase is on any given day.

We want to know how high the clouds are, because...

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