Cirrus
Nimbus
Cumulonimbus
Stratos type
Cumulo type
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How high up in the sky are cirrus clouds?

  • Cirrus clouds are generally found at heights above 5,000 m (16,500 ft)
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What is the height of the base?

  • Height of base: 2,000 - 10,000 ft.
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What is the height of the base

  • Height of base: 1,100 - 6,500 ft.
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What kind of clouds are they like?

Like High-Altitude Fog. Clouds and fog are basically the same things, but most clouds form only at elevation, while fog forms near the ground

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What is the latin definition

Heap or pile

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What are cirrus clouds made of?

  • Cirrus is composed entirely of ice crystals. ...
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What do they look like by shape


  • Shape: Bands or areas of individual cells.
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What do they look like?

  • Shape: fibrous upper edges, anvil top.
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What color are they?

Just Generally Gray

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What do they look like?

Like cotton balls

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Do cirrus show different changes in weather?

  • An extensive area of cirrus, covering a large portion of the sky, may indicate an approaching weather front and a change in the weather.
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what does nimbus mean in latin?

  • Latin: nimbus - rainy cloud; stratus - flattened or spread out.
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What is the latin definition of cumulonimbus?

  • Latin: cumulus - heap; nimbus - rain cloud.
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What can they surround?

A Halo Around the Sun

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How do they form?

 As the air rises, the temperature drops, causing the relative humidity to rise. In this phase, water vapor condenses on various nuclei present in the air, forming the cumulus cloud. This creates the characteristic flat-bottomed puffy shape associated with cumulus clouds.

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Where is the cirrus cloud?

The trophosphere

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What do nimbus clouds bring weather wise?


  • Precipitation: Continuous rain or snow likely.



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What type of weather do they bring?

Precipitation: heavy rain and thunderstorms

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How high are they?

 between the surface and 2,000ft

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how long across can they stretch

Cumulus clouds can form in lines stretching over 480 kilometres

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what does cirrus mean in latin?

  1. Their name derives from Latin – ‘cirrus' meaning a curl, tuft or wisp of hair
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What do nimbus clouds look like?

Nimbostratus clouds are dark, grey, featureless layers of cloud, thick enough to block out the Sun and produce persistent rain.

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How high up in the sky are you?

more than 60,000 feet (20,000 meters) above ground level.

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what kind of weather do they bring?

light drizzle.

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How long is the base?

the cloud base can be in excess of 6,100 metres (20,000 ft).

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