love of clouds

CUMULUS CLOUDS

• Cumulus clouds are puffy clouds that sometimes look like pieces of floating cotton.
• The altitude is about 1000 m.
• They can develop into a giant cumulonimbus, which is a thunderstorm cloud.

STRATUS CLOUDS

• Stratus clouds are uniform grayish clouds that often cover the entire sky.
• Strattus clouds altitude is below 6,000 feet.
• When heavier rain falls from them, their title is changed to nimbostratus clouds.

Cirrus clouds

• Cirrus clouds are thin, wispy clouds blown by high winds into long streamers.
• Cirrus altitude is forming above 6000 m.
• They generally mean fair to pleasant weather.

FOG

• Fog is simply a cloud close to Earth’s surface.
• Fogs altitude is visibility to 1000 meters or less.
• Fog is caused by tiny water droplets suspended in the air.

CUMULONIMBUS clouds

• Cumulonimbus clouds often mean that a thunder storm is brewing.
• Cumulonimbus clouds exist from near ground to 50,000 feet up in the air.
• Cumulonimbus clouds are associated with powerful thunderstorms. Snow, rain, hail, lightning, thunder, and sometimes tornadoes.