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Cumulus
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Puffy white clouds flat on the bottom and dome shaped on top. Made of water vapor. Fair weather clouds
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Stratus
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Layers or blankets of gray cloud. They carry drizzle or steady rain. They are low clouds. At ground level they are fog
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Cirrus
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clouds are feathery wisps and curls made of ice crystals They are high clouds
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Nimbostratus
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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
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Altostratus
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They are not high or low. They form a cloud layer made of water droplets
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Cirrostratus
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Very high clouds made of ice crystals
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Cumulonimbus
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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
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Altocumulus
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They are medium high clouds that look like flattened cumulus clouds almost joined together
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Cirrocumulus
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They produce a mackerel that look like the scales of a fish They appear as rows of tiny icy clouds
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Stratocumulus
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They occur when cumulus clouds spread into layers Long rolls of these clouds indicate fair weather coming
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