cumulus

How To Use cumulus In A Sentence

• Howard's full range of terms was: cirrus (for clouds made up of ‘parallel, flexuous, or dividing fibres’); cumulus (for convex or conical heaps, building upwards from a horizontal base); and stratus, horizontal sheets of cloud.
• These were beautiful altocumulus castellanus, and their puffy towers gave warning of a turbulent atmosphere. Times, Sunday Times
• If this is so, any cumulus which does form during the daytime will quickly stop growing and spread into a layer of stratocumulus and then disperse when night comes.
• They tested their model by comparing its predictions with measurements from field projects devoted to characterizing marine stratocumulus clouds.
• Cumulus heating can also modify the static stability.
• These two distinct layers of altocumulus cloud go by the somewhat cumbersome name of altocumulus stratiformis duplicatus. Times, Sunday Times
• Out over the Adriatic the overcast thickened to 10/10 and stratocumulus clouds reared up to 15,000 feet.
• Above 6,500 feet can be found altocumulus ("clumps or rolls") and altostratus (a "drab and featureless" haze), as well as the storm clouds nimbostratus ("dim, miserable") and cumulonimbus ("the shape of a blacksmith's anvil"). Cirrus Concerns
• Around him, the mountains of southwest Montana towered, glistening peaks lit by snow at their higher altitudes, under a sky so blue it made your teeth ache and wads of cirrocumulus clouds piled high. A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set
• How much does the water in a cumulus cloud weigh?