Clouds
These clouds are detached, dense clouds with sharp outlines, characterized by flat bases and rounded, cauliflower-like tops.
What is a Cumulus cloud?
What do Cumulus clouds indicate?
Fair, pleasant weather.
These clouds are low-altitude, horizontal, and featureless gray or white cloud sheets, often resembling "high fog" or a dull blanket covering the sky.
What is a Stratus cloud?
What do Stratus clouds indicate?
Overcast, gloomy days with light, consistent weather, such as drizzle, mist, or light snow.
These clouds are high-altitude, thin, wispy clouds composed of ice crystals that form above 18,000 to 23,000 feet.
What is a Cirrus cloud?
What do Cirrus clouds indicate?
Fair weather in the short term, but they often signal an approaching change in weather.
These cloud form a towering mass with a flat base at fairly low altitude and often a flat top, as in thunderstorms.
What is are Cumulonimbus clouds?
What do Cumulonimbus cloud indicate?
Severe weather.
These clouds are high-altitude, small, white, patchy "popcorn" clouds that appear in rows or ripples. Often called a "mackerel sky" due to their fish-scale appearance, they signify fair but cold weather in temperate regions.
What is a Cirrocumulus cloud?
What do Cirrocumulus clouds indicate?
Fair but cold weather.