I wandered lonely as a cloud,

That floats on high o'er vales

and hills.

Thin wispy high

clouds

High, small, puffy

and patchy

Tall, fluffy angry

looking grey
clouds

Medium height,
small puffy clouds,
patchy lines

Thin and uniform

Low, puffy and

piled up

Uniform, thin to
think layered
clouds, ill-defined

Broad and flat on

the bottom, puffy
on top

Cirro- given to high

altitude clouds- means
wisp of hair.
Alto- given to midaltitude clouds- means
high.
Nimbo (prefix) or
nimbus (suffix)- is used
for clouds that bring rain.
Cumulo- means heap
and refer to piles of
clouds.
Stratus- means layer
and refers to flat wide
layered clouds.

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image

Patrick Smith Photograph

Front images

pyles94

Cirrus

Man in a bowler hat

Cirrocumulus

A guy with a camera

Cumulonimbus

Andreas Christen

Altocumulus

Nicholas T

Altostratus

Nicholas T

Cumulus

Imprint Phortography

Stratus clouds

Nicholas T

Stratocumulus

http://www.es.lancs.ac.uk/hazelrigg/amy/Observation
%20Pages/10%20Major%20Cloud%20Types.htm

Cloud diagram

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