Cloud Formation
Cloud Types Part 1
Cloud Types Part 2
Cloud Classification
Pictures
- Stratus - uniform, featurless, gray clouds that look like high fog.
- Stratocumulus - soft, gray, globular cloud masses in lines, groups, or waves.
- Nimbostratus - gray, dark, low clouds with drizzling rain.
- Altostratus - thin to thick clouds, with no halos; Sun's outline just visible through clouds on a gray day.
- Altocumulus - clouds like patches of cotton balls, dappled, and arranged in lines or groups.