Stratus Clouds 0 2 km Stratus Clouds Appearance

Stratus Clouds 0 -2 km

Stratus Clouds Appearance • • Flat Layered Thin Dark Gray to Near White Weather • Light drizzle or mist

Cumulus Clouds 0 -13 km

Cumulus Clouds Appearance Weather • Looks like giant cotton balls • May appear alone or in groups. • Usually white, but may appear to be gray. • As tall as 1 km • Usually mean nice weather. • Can form into larger clouds that lead to thunderstorms.

Stratocumulus Clouds 0 -2 km

Stratocumulus Appearance Weather • Large masses. • Usually appear in groups and are either close together or connected. • Dark Gray • Low, lumpy • Larger than Alostratus • Usually signal an incoming storm. • Light precipitation.

Nimbostratus Clouds 0 -2 km

Nimbostratus Appearance Weather • Dark Gray in color. • They often join together to cover the whole sky. • Long and flat. • They are rain clouds. • Continuous rain or snow

Cirrus Clouds 5 -13 km

Cirrus Appearance Weather • Thin, wispy like pieces. • Look like brush strokes or hair. • White in color • Composed of ice • Signal a change in the weather, but they do not carry precipitation. • Sometimes they are the remains of old thunderstorms. • Usually fair weather

Altostratus Clouds 2 -7 km

Altostratus Appearance Weather • Groups of clouds that are 1 km thick • Thunderstorms in late afternoon

Cumulonimbus Clouds 0 -13 km

Cumulonimbus Appearance • • Gray to white in color. Flat bottom and puffy top. Anvil like shape Very TALL-10 km Weather • They are thunderstorm clouds – Heavy Lightening, hail, snow, thunder, tornadoes and rain.