Cumulus clouds are puffy cotton-like clouds with flat bases around 100 miles above ground and rounded cloud tops. Cumulonimbus clouds are tall thunderstorm clouds with dark bases within 300 miles of the surface that release large amounts of energy and can cause tornadoes, thunder, and lightning. Cirrus clouds are thin, curly feather-like clouds that are the highest clouds, forming above 20,000 feet and often appear first in a blue sky. Stratus clouds are uniform gray clouds that can cover the whole sky in a fog-like form without reaching the ground, sometimes drizzling. Altocumulus clouds are puffy gray or blue-gray middle level clouds composed of ice crystals and water droplets that
2. Are puffy clouds that look like cotton.
The base of each cloud is often flat and may be 100
miles above the ground.
The top of the cloud have rounded towers.
3. Are thunderstorms clouds that form if cumulus clouds
continue to grow vertically.
Their dark base be no more then 300 miles (100 ) above the
earths surface.
Tremendous amounts of energy are released by the
condensation of water vapor of cumulonimbus. (
tornadoes, thunder, and lighting come from these clouds.)
4. Are curly, featherlike clouds and are often the first clouds to
appear in a blue sky.
Are consider the highest clouds forming above 600 miles
(20,000ft)
The mean fair weather.
5. Are uniform grayish clouds that often cover the
whole sky.
They resemble fogs that does not reach the ground.
No precipitation from these clouds but sometimes
they may drizzle.
6. Are puffy gray or blue-gray middle level clouds.
They are compost of ice crystals and water droplets.
They often form ahead of storms that will produced
continuous precipitation.
