Clouds - "Easy" tips to Learn and remember types of Clouds and description

 ☁🌤🌫Clouds:🌦🌧⛈

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Clouds are classified in 2 ways:

1. Based on height above sea level
2. Based on the shape of a cloud

Root words:

  For Height:

• Cirro => High
• Alto => Medium

For Shape:

• Cirrus => Thin, white, high
• Cumulus => Puffy, rounded, cauliflower structure, white
• Stratus => Flat (blanket like), layered

Precipitation:

• Nimbus / Nimbo => Rain

Tips for describing the cloud:

• See the below picture, this picture tells the story.
• If you keep this picture in your mind, then describing the clouds is as easy as ABC.
• You can easily make out the HEIGHT, SHAPE, COLOUR, and LOOK of the cloud from this picture.

Let's describe the of clouds from the picture:

Cirrus:

• High cloud
• White colour
• Thin
• Looks like feathers or wispy(like eye bro)
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Cirrostratus:🌤

• High cloud
• Flat (blanket like).
• Looks like a veil (veil means like see through dress)
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• eg. 👆 for a veil
• This veil produce halos around sun, sufficiently clear for altitude observation.
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Cirrocumulus:☁️

• High cloud
• White colour
• Looks like patches of Small puffy or cauliflower
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Altostratus:🌥

• Medium cloud
• Thicker than cirrostratus
• Sun or Moon appears very dim - as seen through frosted glass
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• Eg. 👆Sun or moon seen through frosted glass.
• Not clear enough for altitude observation.

Altocumulus:☁️☁️☁️

• Medium cloud
• White or grey in colour
• Have dark shadows
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• Looks like 👆 flattened globules/rolls/long bands

Stratus:🏔

• Low cloud
• Even layered
• Dark grey cloud
• Can obscure the sun completely and weaken daylight
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Stratocumulus:☁️

• Low cloud
• Even layered or patches of globular masses which appear soft
• With dark shadows
• Form an overcast sky
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Nimbostratus:🌧

• Low cloud
• Dark grey cloud
• Can greatly obscure the sun completely and weaken daylight
• Looks like uniform and threatening
• Can produce moderate rain
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Cumulus:🌫

• It's base at a low level
• White colour
• Thick cloud
• Flat base and cauliflower-like structure
• A dark shadow is seen
• Indicate fair weather
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Cumulonimbus:⛈

• It's base at a low level
• Mass grey cloud (heavy cloud)
• Have a great vertical extent till tropopause and spread sideways and appears like anvil shape
• Threatening appearance
• Thunder cloud
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