Clouds

A visible mass of condensed water vapor (water droplets) floating in the atmosphere, typically high above the ground.

• Cloud

• Cumulus

• Fog

• Stratus

A cloud at ground level.

• Cirrus

• Cumulus

• Fog

• Stratus

A type of cumulus cloud that is tall and gray, and associated with thunderstorms.

• Cumulus

• Nimbo

• Cumulonimbus

• Stratus

  White fluffy clouds that look like piles of cotton balls with flat bottoms – usually bring fair weather.

• Stratus

• Cirrus

• Fog

• Cumulus

A flat, low-lying cloud that covers the sky like a blanket; can produce rain or snow.

• Stratus

• Nimbo

• Nimbostratus

• Cirrus

Thin, wispy clouds with ice crystals that form high in the sky.  They usually indicate a change of weather.

• Fog

• Cirrus

• Cumulus

• Stratus

Added to the name of a cloud to show that it brings some form of precipitation

• Nimbo

• Nimbostratus

• Cumulonimbus

• Cirrus

Clouds that are low-level, uniform layer, usually very dark, and bring strong, steady precipitation

• Cumulus

• Cirrus

• Nimbostratus

• Cumulonimbus