Clouds & Global Wind Patterns

Cirro means:

Cumulo means:

Strato means:

Nimbo means:

Identify the cloud:

hair-like clouds found at the high-level; may take on colors of the rising/setting sun

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mid-level clouds; patches or layers of clouds, called cloudlets, in the shape of rounded clumps

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high-level cloud, a lot of small, white cloudlets grouped together, formed almost entirely of ice crystals

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very low-level cloud (the lowest), sometimes appears at ground-level as mist or fog

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mid-level, formed from a mixture of water droplets and ice crystals, spread out over a large area, can have parallel stripes

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low-level cloud that can be present in all weather conditions