Cumulus cloud
Cumulus clouds are white clouds that are dense and large. They are known to look like cauliflower. Mostly, you can see easily that cumulus clouds have flat bottoms but the tops are always changing shape.
Seeing a cumulus cloud means that the air is well mixed by up and down vertical drafts. When a cumulus cloud grows into a thunderstorm, the cloud is called a cumulonimbus cloud. This is a sign that the air is rising to the stratosphere.[1]
Cumulus Cloud Media
Cumulus clouds forming over the Congo River basin
Cumulus clouds seen from above
Lines of Cumulus clouds over Brittany
Some cumulus mediocris clouds
Cumulus congestus clouds compared against a cumulonimbus cloud in the background
A large field of cirrocumulus clouds
Altocumulus stratiformis radiatus
A flat stratocumulus cloud
References
- ↑ The Weather Book Wonders of Creation
Other websites
- AMS Glossary of Meteorology
- Cumulus cloud at BBC Weather Archived 2008-03-25 at the Wayback Machine
- Cumulus cloud page at University of Richmond internal site Archived 2009-05-27 at the Wayback Machine
- Time-lapse of the formation of Cumulus clouds
