Often chaotic and untidy-looking, showing every shade from white to grey. LOW CLOUD. Stratus. The low, featureless blanket. Often covers the whole sky. Tends to be thick enough to hide the position of the Sun. Can form so low as to touch the ground or sea as fog.

Oct 19, 2024 · Our Cloudspotting Chart is the ultimate poster for sky geeks. It includes images and descriptions of 52 different cloud types, from the ten main ones like Cumulus and Cirrus (all of which feature in the diagram at the top) to rare and fleeting formations like fluctus and volutus – the crown jewels of any cloudspotter’s collection.

Oct 31, 2018 · We’ve created a comprehensive cloud identification guide which will help you learn everything you need to know about cloud identification and classification. It’s a document that walks you through the hobby of cloudspotting and gives …

We’ve designed cloud identification chart that can help you visualize all cloud types and subtypes in a single infographic. As you become more familiar with these terms, you’ll see not all cloud types can be any species, variety, etc.

Sep 22, 2020 · If you’re completely new to cloudspotting, the website whatsthiscloud will be a great introductory guide. They have more detailed descriptions and photographs of each of the cloud genera and species, along with a helpful little infographic that shows each type’s color, altitude, probability of precipitation, etc.

Use this cloud identification chart and infographic to help your cloudspotting skills and to learn more about cloud identification and classification.

Our Cloudspotting Chart is the ultimate poster for sky geeks. It includes images and descriptions of 52 different cloud types, from the ten main ones like Cumulus and Cirrus (all of which feature in the diagram at the top) to rare and fleeting formations like fluctus and volutus – the crown jewels...

There are ten basic types of cloud and they are grouped according to the way they look – whether they’re made up of individual clumps, or layers or streaks – and how high they are – whether low,...

Aug 2, 2020 · Firstly print a copy of the types of clouds chart to help you identify them and learn the names. This field guide has activities for young ones (pinwheel making & chart, cloud & wind chart, and what’s happening […]

Your journey to become an expert cloudspotter begins here, by learning the ten main types of cloud. This course of 4 x 15-minute videos, each with quiz questions to help embed your learning, will teach you the distinctive characteristics of each of the ten main cloud types and how to distinguish between them.