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How can you tell if the cloud above you is a nimbostratus or a cumulonimbus?
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Nimbostratus is a thick cloud, typically formed on a warm front, as air is lifted over a large area (i.e. mass ascent). Precipitation is rain or snow (or a mix of both), and this can last for several hours.
A cumulonimbus is formed by convection and is much taller than it is wide. Cumulonimbus clouds bring heavy showersof rain or snow, but they also bring thunder and lightning and hail. The showers will usually last for less than one hour.
Finally, if you look at the bottom of a cumulonimbus cloud, you may see dark pouches (called mammatus) hanging down. These are caused by air currents trying to fall to the ground.
You won't see mammatus under Nimbostratus, nor will you get thunder and lightning or hail. Thunderstorms = Cumulonimbus.
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What cloud tells you snow is coming?
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