Is it true that high clouds bring perception?

Answer 1

Expert answer is too funny!

As for a serious answer - NO - most precipitate yielding clouds tend to be LOW or MID-level clouds (although they can spread into the higher atmosphere).

Nimbostratus clouds form in the middle level of the troposphere and spread into both low and high altitude levels during precipitation. They tend to produce more of a steady, longer rain than Cumulonimbus clouds. If it is cold enough, they can produce snow. Nimbostratus clouds can develop from high clouds like cirrostratus and altostratus but they have to actually transition to nibostratus before they will produce rain or snow (or sleet). They tend to be a broad gray expanse thick enough you can't see the disk of the sun through them.

Cumulonimbus clouds (aka thunder clouds) stretch even further than nimbostratus clouds from low to high altitudes, that is, the bottom of the cloud is at a relatively low altitude - perhaps around 450 m (~1500 feet) with the top stretching all the way up to 12,000 m (~65,000 feet). As their alternate name (thunder cloud) suggests, these are the type of clouds that produce thunderstorms. They can produce intense rain and sometimes hail. Although not all of them spawn tornadoes, this is the kind of cloud associated with tornadoes. These kind of clouds are VERY thick (refer to how far the stretch from low to high altitude) - thick enough to look "black" and definitely too thick to see the sun through.

Clouds that are confined to the high atmosphere like Cirrus, Cirrostratus and Cirrocumulus are wispy and you can usually see the sun - or even moon - pretty well through them. There isn't enough to them to give any precipitation unless (as noted earlier) conditions cause them to transition to a different kind of cloud.

Likewise, mid-level clouds like Altostratus and Altocumulus are not really thick enough to drop precipitation. While thicker than the Cirrus type clouds, you can still often see the sun as a bright disk through the clouds. Again - like the Cirrus clouds - if the right conditions are present, they can transition in to a different type of cloud that can then produce precipitation.

Answer 2

Yes, thus the old song "It's cloud illusions I recall; I really don't know clouds at all."

Clouds do cause altered perception in humans, but it's usually the lower ones that block out our perception of the world around us and make us see things differently.

Do you think maybe you meant to ask about precipitation instead of perception?