Term |
Definition |
Stratus Clouds |
blanket like layers that often produce long steady precipitation |
Cumulus |
Puffy clouds with a flat bottom and that bring fair weather |
Cirrus Clouds |
Wispy, feather like shape; seen sunny days |
Cumulonimbus Clouds |
produce heavy and brief thunderstorms and the only clouds to form vertically (up and down)
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Fog |
low level stratus clouds |
Rain |
falls through warm air from the cloud all the way to the ground |
Snow |
falls through cold air from the cloud to the ground |
Sleet |
falls as a raindrop from the cloud and then falls through cold air at the ground “frozen raindrop” |
Hail |
produced by a cumulonimbus cloud- moves up and down in the cloud and grows larger and larger. |