The Art of Cloud Spotting
Like Duolingo, but for The Art of Cloud Spotting. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
A short one: 9 levels across 2 sections, about 18 minutes end to end, roughly 4 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Decoding the Basic Shapes and Reading the Sky's Mood. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in The Art of Cloud Spotting
- Cumulus clouds look like individual heaps or puffs
- Stratus clouds form continuous, featureless layers
- Cirrus clouds appear as delicate, hair-like strands
- Cumulus clouds have a distinct 'flat bottom, puffy top' structure
- Individual, bright white cumulus clouds usually indicate fair weather
- Matching the three primary cloud textures to their visual descriptions
- Identifying cumulus clouds by their distinct shape and typical weather association
- Stratus clouds block out the sun in a wide, flat layer
- Cirrus clouds are made of ice crystals because they form at high, cold altitudes
- Stratus clouds lack the distinct edges or gaps found in other cloud types
- The high-altitude winds stretch these clouds into feathery 'mare's tails'
- Identifying cirrus clouds by their unique altitude and composition
- Perspective makes distant, high clouds look smaller than low, nearby clouds
- Recognizing the 'blanket' effect of stratus clouds
- Cloud puffs that appear smaller than a thumb are high-altitude clouds
- Using the 'rule of thumb' to estimate cloud height
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives The Art of Cloud Spotting the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
If you look up and see a flat, uniform sheet of gray covering the sky, which cloud type are you seeing?
Get it right to open this lesson and 8 more in the app.
Where The Art of Cloud Spotting takes you
Turn every walk outside into a weather report. Learn to identify the three main cloud shapes and read the sky's patterns to predict what the weather will do next.
- 1
Decoding the Basic Shapes
- Identifying the Big Three
- Mixing Heights and Textures
- 2
Reading the Sky's Mood
- Spotting the Storm Starters
- Predicting Weather Shifts
2 sections · 4 units · 9 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
The Art of Cloud Spotting is taught in the The Bestie style: your friend who just gets it. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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