🍤PATRICKS DISCOVERY OF CLOUDS!🌟

CUMULUS CLOUDS

• Cumulus clouds are puffy clouds that sometimes look like pieces of floating cotton.
• A cumulus cloud is usually only 1,000 m. (330 ft.) above the ground.
• Cumulus clouds usually produces thunder storms.

STRATUS CLOUDS

• Stratus clouds are grayish clouds that often cover the entire sky.
• Stratus clouds resemble fog but does not reach the ground.
• Usually no precipitation falls from stratus clouds but sometimes it might rain a little.

CIRRUS CLOUDS

• Cirrus clouds are thin, wispy clouds.
• They are considered "high clouds" forming above 6,000 m. (20,000 ft.)
• Cirrus clouds usually mean pleasant weather.

FOG

• Fog can simply be defined as a cloud touching the ground.
• The foggiest place in the U.S. is Point Reyes,C.A. which has over 200 days of fog a year.
• Long, cool autumn nights cause the air near the ground to chill, causing the formation of fog to happen in fall.

NIMBUS CLOUDS

• Nimbus clouds are dark clouds that have a lot of moisture in them.
• A nimbus cloud has an altitude of about 6,500 ft.
• Nimbus clouds usually participate as rain, snow, hail, or sleet.

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