Why peculiar clould over capian sea ?

This is not the first time that weather satellites hovering over our planet have caught breathtaking views of the clouds beneath them. Recently, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shared an image wherein the clouds gave a message during one of the weekends. See for yourself below.

The image was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite on May 28 and according to Bastiaan van Diedenhoven, this relatively tiny cloud is stratocumulus, as per a NASA blog post. Diedenhoven, an atmospheric scientist at SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, explained that the term stratocumulus is made of the Latin word named cumulus, meaning heap or pile, and Stratus, meaning "to spread out" or "cover with a layer". 

These types of clouds form at low altitudes, generally between 600 and 2,000 meters (2,000 and 7,000 feet). As for this little cloud in the image, it formed a layer spanning about 100 kilometres across at an altitude of about 1,500 meters (5,000 feet). Diedenhoven further revealed that the cloud must have formed when the warm, dry air from the Balkans encountered colder, moist air over the Caspian and made it drift across the sea and dissipate when it reached land.

Explaining the sharp edges of the Stratocumulus cloud, Diedenhoven said in a statement, "Sharp edges are often formed when dry, warm air coming from land collides with colder moist air over the ocean, and the cloud forms at that boundary. You often see this off the west coast of Africa but at much larger scales".  

This is not the first time that weather satellites hovering over our planet have caught breathtaking views of the clouds beneath them. Recently, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shared an image wherein the clouds gave a message during one of the weekends. See for yourself below.

According to van Diedenhoven, the cloud could have formed when warm, dry air—possibly from the Balkans—encountered colder, moist air over the Caspian. It then drifted across the sea and dissipated when it reached land. The scenario also explains the cloud’s well-defined edges.

A distinctive cloud appeared over the Caspian Sea on May 28, 2022. Joshua Stevens/MODIS/NASA EOSDIS LANCE/GIBS/Worldview NASA's Earth-watching Terra satellite peered down from space on May 28 and caught sight of something unusual floating over the Caspian Sea, the world's largest inland body of water