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Stratus clouds belong to the Low Cloud (surface-2000m up) group. They are uniform gray in color and can cover most or all of the sky. Stratus clouds can look like a fog that doesn't reach the ...

Domain: Weather; Category: Clouds

Stratocumulus clouds belong to the Low Cloud (surface-2000m) group. These clouds are low, lumpy, and gray. These clouds can look like cells under a microscope - sometimes they line up in rows and ...

Domain: Weather; Category: Clouds

A type of rare and tube-shaped cloud formation created by a cold front ploughing under the warm, moist air that's closer to the ground. Roll clouds belong to a family of low-forming clouds known as ...

Domain: Weather; Category: Clouds

Pileus (Latin for "skullcap"), also called cap cloud, scarf cloudis is a small, smooth, thin cloud found attached to either a mountain top or growing cumulus tower.

Domain: Weather; Category: Clouds

Orographic clouds are clouds that develop in response to the forced lifting of air by the earth's topography (mountains for example).

Domain: Weather; Category: Clouds

Noctilucent cloud - from Latin noct- + lucent-, lucens lucenta- is a luminous thin usually colored cloud seen especially at twilight at a height of about 50 miles (80 kilometers).

Domain: Weather; Category: Clouds

Nimbostratus clouds belong to the Low Cloud (surface to 2000m up) group. They are dark gray with a ragged base. Nimbostratus clouds are associated with continuous rain or snow. Sometimes they cover ...

Domain: Weather; Category: Clouds

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