Major cloud types matched with their altitude and the weather they typically signal, one cloud type per card, deeper than the casual sky-watching trivia elsewhere in the catalog.
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- What cloud type is thin, wispy, and forms at high altitude, often signaling fair weather but sometimes an approaching front?
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Cirrus clouds- What cloud type is a large, flat-bottomed, towering cloud associated with thunderstorms?
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Cumulonimbus clouds- What cloud type is puffy, white, and cotton-like, typically associated with fair weather?
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Cumulus clouds- What cloud type forms a flat, gray layer covering the sky, often bringing steady light rain or drizzle?
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Stratus clouds- What cloud type combines a layered, gray appearance with rain, often producing steady, prolonged precipitation?
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Nimbostratus clouds- What altitude range defines high clouds like cirrus, typically forming above 20,000 feet?
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Above about 20,000 feet (6,000 meters)- What altitude range defines low clouds like stratus and cumulus, typically forming below 6,500 feet?
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Below about 6,500 feet (2,000 meters)- What altitude range defines mid-level clouds like altostratus and altocumulus?
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Roughly 6,500 to 20,000 feet (2,000 to 6,000 meters)- What cloud type appears as a wavy, rippled layer at mid altitude, sometimes called a 'mackerel sky'?
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Altocumulus clouds- What cloud type appears as a smooth, gray sheet at mid altitude, often thickening ahead of a warm front?
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Altostratus clouds- What cloud type appears as high, thin, rippled patches, often described as looking like fish scales?
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Cirrocumulus clouds- What cloud type appears as a thin, sheet-like veil at high altitude, sometimes producing a halo around the sun or moon?
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Cirrostratus clouds- What cloud type forms in small, low, lumpy patches, often seen at sunrise or sunset with pink or gray coloring?
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Stratocumulus clouds- What towering cloud type develops from cumulus clouds and can grow into a cumulonimbus storm cloud given enough instability?
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Towering cumulus clouds- What weather condition does a cirrus cloud's wispy shape typically indicate is developing within the next day or so?
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A change in weather, often an approaching warm front
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