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Mr McCloud's Cloud Quiz |
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"Hi ! I'm Mr McCloud. Read
through the information about clouds on the right and then have a
go at my Cloud Quiz." More about Mr McCloud Mr McCloud shows the four primary cloud groups - cirrus (wispy, hair-like), strata (layers, sheet-like), cumulus (puffy, heaped) and nimbus (rain cloud). He has a cumulonimbus body with a thunderhead (he's a bit of a dunderhead and going a bit troppo - his bald patch is pushing through the tropopause). He has cirrus cloud for hair and ice crystal dandruff. His feet are made from strata cloud. One leg is a tornado and the other is a heavy down pour of rain (microburst). He carries a lightning walking stick that he uses to herd and scare people with and lives in a cloud environment, with a cloud house and cloud car etc. He has a cloud farm with a herd of fluffy cloud sheep. |
Cloud
Classification
Other clouds could be described by combining the basic types. For example, nimbostratus is a rain cloud that occurs in layers, whereas cumulonimbus is a rain cloud with pronounced vertical development. Cirrostratus is cirrus occurring as a sheet-like cloud, and stratocumulus is a layer cloud with some cumulus features.
There are ten principal cloud forms which are divided into four primary cloud groups:
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