Weather List #3 - Clouds

Wispy, feathery clouds made of ice crystals that form at high levels.

• Cirrus

• Cumulus

• Stratus

• Nimbus

Fluffy, white clouds, usually with flat bottoms, that look like rounded piles of cotton.

• Cirrus

• Cumulus

• Stratus

• Nimbus

Clouds that form in flat layers and often cover much of the sky. These are low clouds that produce steady rain.

• Cirrus

• Cumulus

• Stratus

• Nimbus

a cloud forming a large, dark, towering mass with a flat base at fairly low altitude that often results in thunderstorms with lightning, flooding, and sometimes hail

• Cumulus

• Cumulonimbus

• Stratus

• Cirrus

always means rain

• Cumulus

• Cirrus

• Stratus

• Nimbus

a stratus cloud that forms near the ground reducing visibility

• Fog

• Cirrus

• Stratus

• Cumulus

a severe storm that develops over tropical oceans and whose strong winds of more than 120 km/h spiral in toward the intensely low-pressure storm center

• Hurricane

• Tornado

• Fog

• Cumulonimbus

a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground

• Hurricane

• Tornado

• Fog

• Cumulonimbus