Clouds 101
Clouds are made of tiny droplets or these?
What are ice crystals?
These clouds are thunderclouds.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
Clouds that begin with "alto" are this level clouds.
What are middle level clouds?
This cloud is a high level cloud that looks like tiny cotton balls bunched together.
What are cirrocumulus clouds?
This cloud is shaped like an anvil.
What is a cumulonimbus cloud?
Clouds form when warm air rises in this.
What is the atmosphere?
These clouds are steady rainmakers.
What are nimbostratus clouds?
Clouds that have the name "stratus" in them, typically are what level clouds.
What are low level clouds?
This cloud is a middle level cloud that forms a dark gray covering in the sky. It may signal rain.
What is a altostratus cloud?
These high clouds are whispy and feathery and are sometimes called "mares tails."
What are cirrus clouds?
Warm air cools down and does this to form the clouds.
What is condenses?
These types of high level clouds usually signal fair weather but are "warning clouds" that rain is coming in the next 24 hours.
What are cirrocumulus clouds?
What is "cirro" or "cirrus?"
This type of cloud is the only cloud that brings hailstorms, tornadoes, and violent storms.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
These middle level clouds are small, white and poofy.
What are altocumulus clouds?
These are the four levels that clouds could be on.
What are high, middle, low, and verticle?
These clouds produce light rain, drizzle or fog.
What are stratus clouds?
Clouds that are considered vertical usually have this word in their name.
What is "cumulus?"
This level of cloud is anything below 6,500 feet, and these clouds are made of water droplets.
What are low level clouds?
These high level thin, flat clouds cover the whole sky making it appear overcast.
What are cirrostratus clouds?
If the clouds names has "Cirrus" or "Cirro" in the name, it is this level of cloud.
What is the cloud is a high altitude cloud?
These clouds are large and poofy and look like cauliflower. They usually bring fair weather.
What are cumulus clouds?
This is the lowest type of cloud.
What is stratus?
This level of cloud is any cloud above 20,000 ft and these clouds are made of ice crystals.
What are high level clouds?
These middle level clouds are like a dark gray thick blanket that brings steady rain.
What are nimbostratus clouds?