Clouds

Front 1

Cumulus

Back 1

Puffy white clouds flat on the bottom and dome shaped on top. Made of water vapor. Fair weather clouds

Front 2

Stratus

Back 2

Layers or blankets of gray cloud. They carry drizzle or steady rain. They are low clouds. At ground level they are fog

Front 3

Cirrus

Back 3

clouds are feathery wisps and curls made of ice crystals They are high clouds

Front 4

Nimbostratus

Back 4

They are dark gray clouds. Layers or blankets of clouds. They produce hours of rain or snow. They start near the ground. They can go high into the sky

Front 5

Altostratus

Back 5

They are not high or low. They form a cloud layer made of water droplets

Front 6

Cirrostratus

Back 6

Very high clouds made of ice crystals

Front 7

Cumulonimbus

Back 7

Storm clouds called thunder heads They can be associated with rain thunder lightning and tornadoes. They are flat and dark on the bottom they billow upward

Front 8

Altocumulus

Back 8

They are medium high clouds that look like flattened cumulus clouds almost joined together

Front 9

Cirrocumulus

Back 9

They produce a mackerel that look like the scales of a fish They appear as rows of tiny icy clouds

Front 10

Stratocumulus

Back 10

They occur when cumulus clouds spread into layers Long rolls of these clouds indicate fair weather coming