Cloud Types

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Cloud Types

• Based on information from Athena
• http//inspire.ospi.wednet.edu8001/curric/weather
  /pricloud/

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Cirrus Clouds

• Cirrus (meaning "curl") clouds are very high,
  wispy clouds made of ice. Even in the summer,
  cirrus clouds are made of ice because it is cold
  high above Earth.

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Cumulus

• Cumulus (meaning "heap") clouds are the large
  clouds that sometimes look like huge puffs of
  cotton. Sometimes these clouds look like animals
  or familiar things. It is fun to use your
  imagination to make up stories about the clouds.

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Cumulonimbus

• Sometimes cumulus clouds get dark gray and rain
  or hail falls from them. They are then called
  cumulonimbus clouds. These clouds often produce
  lightning and thunder. Nimbus always tells us
  that a cloud brings rain.

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Stratus

• Stratus (meaning "stretched out") clouds are
  made up of low layers of clouds that usually
  cover the whole sky and blot out the sun. These
  clouds bring gray days. When rain falls from
  them, they are called nimbostratus clouds.

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Slide images take by Dave Stormguy Crowley
http//www.stormguy.com/
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Mammatus --altocumulus
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Supercell near Amarillo TX
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