1. Learn these 10 cloud types and names and be able to describe them in your own words. [cirrus, cirrostratus, cirrocumulus, altstratus, altocumulus, stratus, stratocumulus, nimbostratus, cumulus, cumulonimbus]

2. Root words
Cirro high
Alto middle
Root words
Cummulo puffy or clouds with vertical structure
Stratus –sheet like (uniform layer)
Nimbo - associated with precipitation

3. Cirrocumulus: high puffy clouds
Cirocumulus clouds are often referred to as a mackerel (fish) sky.

4. Cirrus (whispy)
Gordo's cloud gallery (cirrus clouds or mares tails) All photos and text Copyright © Gordon Richardson

5. Cirrostratus (Halo)
Cirrostratus are a uniform layer of ice particle and often have a halo around the moon or sun.

6. Cirrostratus (Halo)
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7.
SunDogs

8. Altocummulus
Middle puffy clouds

9. Altostratus
Dim view of sun

10. Stratus
Like high fog

11. stratocummulus
Layer of low puffy clouds

12. Nimostratus
Low level uniform rainy cloud
Scud: little disconnected clouds

13. Fair weather cummulus
Easy to confuse with stratocummulus

14. Cumulus congestus

15. cumulonimbus
Thunderhead

16. Banner cloud

17. Lenticular clouds
Lens shaped
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18. My Fuji

19. Lenticular Clouds
Mt. Rainer

20. Mammatus Clouds
Bag like

21. Mammatus Clouds

22. Aircraft concentration vapor trail
Contrail. When the upper atmosphere is dry they disappear fairly fast; when it’s humid they persist for some time.

23. Make observations of sky cover directly upward to get correct reading.

24. Height to cloud base estimated with a laser ceilometer.