Cloud Types
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trennyrenny on December 10, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Cirrocumulus | puffy (mackeral sky) | Highest level (above 18,000ft.) |
| Cirrus | Wispy | Highest level (above 18,000 ft.) |
| Altocumulus | Puffy | (6,000 to 20,000ft.) |
| Altostratus | Wispy | (6,000 to 20,000ft.) |
| Stratocumulus | Puffy white clouds that are banded together | (Below 6,000ft.) |
| Stratus | (Type of Precipitation: Drizzle) -- Wispy greyish clouds | (Below 6,000 ft.) |
| Nimbostratus | Low rain clouds, steady precipitation | (Below 6,000 ft.) |
| Cumulus | (Type of Precipitation: Flurries) -- Beginnings of storm clouds, are beginning to rise and turn grey. | (Below 6,000 ft.) |
| Cumulonimbus | Type of precipitation: Hailstones -- Storm clouds that rise through all of the troposphere and are capped by an anvil as the clouds spread at the tropopause. | (Below 6,000 ft.) |
| Cumuliform | Types of precipitation: Showers & snow squalls |
| Stratus | Types of precipitation: Drizzle & snow Grains |
| Cumulus congestus | Type of precipitation: Snow pellets |
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