Learn these 10 cloud types and names and

Learn these 10 cloud types and names and be able to describe them in your own words. [cirrus, cirrostratus, cirrocumulus, altstratus, altocumulus, stratocumulus, nimbostratus, cumulonimbus]

Root words Cirro high Alto middle Root words Cummulo puffy or clouds with vertical structure Stratus –sheet like (uniform layer) Nimbo - associated with precipitation

Cirrocumulus: high puffy clouds Cirocumulus clouds are often referred to as a mackerel (fish) sky.

Cirrus (whispy) Gordo's cloud gallery (cirrus clouds or mares tails) All photos and text Copyright © 1998 -2001 Gordon Richardson

Cirrostratus (Halo) Cirrostratus are a uniform layer of ice particle and often have a halo around the moon or sun.

Cirrostratus (Halo) Gordo's cloud gallery All photos and text Copyright © 1998 -2001 Gordon Richardson

http: // www. amtsgym-sdbg. dk/as/halo/ Sun. Dogs

Altocummulus Middle puffy clouds

Altostratus Dim view of sun

Stratus Like high fog

stratocummulus Layer of low puffy clouds

Nimostratus Low level uniform rainy cloud Scud: little disconnected clouds

Fair weather cummulus Easy to confuse with stratocummulus

Cumulus congestus

cumulonimbus Thunderhead

Banner cloud

Lenticular clouds Lens shaped Gordo's cloud gallery All photos and text Copyright © 1998 -2001 Gordon Richardson

My Fuji http: //www. crystalinks. com/lenticular. html

Lenticular Clouds Mt. Rainer

Mammatus Clouds Bag like

Mammatus Clouds http: //www. hprcc. unl. edu/nebraska/june 2004 hastings-mammatus. html

Aircraft concentration vapor trail Contrail. When the upper atmosphere is dry they disappear fairly fast; when it’s humid they persist for some time.

Make observations of sky cover directly upward to get correct reading.

Height to cloud base estimated with a laser ceilometer.