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“Onions have layers, Ogres have layers…”     Skies have layers. Above is a photograph from “High life: First look inside the $60,000 per month penthouse at New York by Gehry” in New York Daily News .   Apparently I’m not cut out to be an architect, because my first reaction to this photograph was, “what a great view – what curious clouds.”   Notice that the clouds are a mix of puffy cumulous and wispy cirrus.   Since I was already putting together a blog on cloud layers I added this to the pile of images. So, let’s talk layers… A quick and dirty tour of cloud types:  Stratus and Stratocumulus are both low altitude clouds that are laid out horizontally – creating horizontal lines at the horizon and directional clouds overhead. Cumulus clouds are the fluffy summer day cotton balls that float along at a low altitude – think of your typical politician’s grayish white helmet of hair. Cumulonimbus clouds are the towering stacks of heavy rain clouds that ar...