The four-door hatchback, however, is generating cumulus clouds of data every second.

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Mr. RANDY SHEPARD (Fire Incident Officer, Washington): There were some very large smoke columns that looked like huge cumulus clouds that develop over the fires.

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And off in the violet distance behind them, prodding them along in their efforts, are the faint outlines of silvery cumulus clouds boiling up in the haze.

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However, after three years of observations of low stratus, cumulus and stratocumulus clouds over land, Anthony Del Genio of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies discovered that when air temperatures were higher, clouds were thinner and thus less capable of reflecting sunlight.

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As a young boy, he would gaze into the clouds and suddenly find a human face or familiar shape sketched into the cumulus.

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