Look like pieces of cotton
Tops are rounded, bottoms are flat
What is a Cumulus cloud?
100
Heavy, grey, close to ground
form in rows around sky
What is a stratocumulus cloud?
100
Good weather
What is a cirrus cloud?
100
They mean that they can bring rain, hail, thunderstorms, or snow
What is cumulonumbus?
100
Band of high-speed winds in the upper troposphere that blows or travels from West to East
What is the jet stream
200
Looks like fog, flat grey, cover entire sky
What is a stratus cloud?
200
mists drizzle
What is a stratus cloud?
200
Air in the atmosphere pressing down on Earth’s surface
What is air pressure
300
Mid-level, look like grey blanket
What is an altocumulus cloud?
300
thunderstorm may be near
What is altocumulus
300
Air moves when the sun heats land and water
What is wind movement
400
Dark storm clouds
What is a cumulonimbus?
400
They usually mean rain snow
What is stratocumulus?
400
Movement of air across the atmosphere
What is wind
500
High, common, made of ice
What is cirrus cloud?
500
They mean fair weather, can change to thunderstorms if they accumulate
what is cumulus
500
The Beauford scale, shows the wind speed, which is determined by the anometer. The smaller the wind speed, the smaller the number on the Beauford scale.