Types of Clouds

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Across
  1. 2. Large clouds with dark bases and tall billowing towers. Can have sharp well defined edges or an anvil shape at the top. Precipitation can obscure the base of the clouds. Clouds can be accompanied by thunder.
  2. 4. High clouds, light gray or white, often thin with the Sun or Moon seen through them. Usually cover much of the sky.
  3. 7. High clouds with a puffy, patchy appearance and small spaces between clouds. Often form wave-like patterns.
  4. 8. Low clouds. Clouds appear puffy and look like cotton balls, popcorn or cauliflower.
  5. 9. High clouds, thin wispy and feathery, composed of ice crystals.
  6. 10. – Low clouds, light or dark gray and generally uniform in appearance and covering most of the sky. Fog is a stratus cloud.
Down
  1. 1. Middle clouds with a puffy, patchy appearance, usually with spaces between clouds.
  2. 3. Low clouds with irregular masses of clouds, rolling or puffy in appearance, sometimes with space between the clouds.
  3. 5. Middle clouds, light gray and uniform in appearance, generally covering most of the sky.
  4. 6. Low and middle dark gray clouds with precipitation falling from them. Bases are diffuse and difficult to determine because of falling precipitation.