Types of Clouds

CUMULOUS CLOUDS

• Each cloud is only 330ft. above the ground.
• Cumulous clouds look really big and puffy.
• These clouds grow upward, and they don't have a kind of weather.

Cirrus Clouds

• Cirrus clouds are thin, wispy clouds blown by high winds into long streamers
• Cirrus clouds form above 6000 m. (20,000 ft.)
• They generally mean fair to pleasant weather.

cirrostratus clouds

• Cirrostratus clouds are thin, sheetlike high clouds that often cover the entire sky.
• They are so thin that the sun and moon can be seen through them.
• They have no kind of weather what so ever.

Stratus clouds

• Stratus clouds are uniform grayish clouds that often cover the entire sky.
• They resemble fog that does not reach the ground at all.

Fog

• Fog can be considered a cloud at ground level.
• Like clouds, fog is made up of condensed water droplets which are the result of-
• the air being cooled to the dew-point where it can no longer hold all of the-
• water vapor it contains.

CUMULONIMBUS CLOUDS

• Cumulonimbus cloud are thunderstorm clouds that form if cumulus congests clouds-
• continue to grow vertically.
• Their dark bases may only be no more than 300m (1,000) above the Earth's surface.
• Lightning, thunder, and even violent tornadoes are associated with the cumulonimbus.