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There are three families of clouds. The families are cirrus, cumulus, and stratus. Types of clouds in the cloud families are: cirrocumulus, cirrostratus, altostratus, altocumulus, nimbostratus, stratocumulus, and cumulonimbus.
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Are nimbus clouds storm clouds?
Well a nimbus cloud is not a cloud. If you are referring to a cumulonimbus cloud than yes. A cumulonimbus cloud is a storm cloud. Clouds that have names that include -nimbus or nimbo- are likely to produce precipitation.
What is the relationship between the word nimbus and cloud?
Nimbus is the Latin word for cloud. In modern meteorology, it is used as a prefix or suffix on the names of particular types of clouds to indicate a cloud that is precipitating (rain, snow, hail, etc.). Thus a cumulonimbusis a cumulus cloud that is releasing precipitation and a nimbostratus is a status cloud releasing precipitation.
What is a funnel cloud that touches the cloud?
All funnel clouds touch the clouds. A funnel cloud that touched the ground is called a tornado.
What are all of the wisp cloud?
They are Cirrostratus an Cirrus.
How do cloud droplets become large enough to fall as precipitation?
well, they collect all together in the cloud and when it is full enough it all drops as precipitation
What cloud names are combinations of names of the two main cloud types?
Boi if you
Is the Dodge Stratus known as a cloud car?
Yes the Dodge Stratus is know as a cloud car. Especially because of its shape and all the of its twin cars have similar names to a cloud.
What language are cloud names in?
English and or old british
What type clouds are made of ice crystals?
Some prefixes of cloud names describe the height of the cloud bases. Some clouds' names combine the altitude prefix with the term status or cumulus. The answer for the question is Cirrostratus.
What are all the names for the color gray?
Blue grey, dark grey, warm grey, cool grey, cloud grey, silver.
Are nimbus clouds storm clouds?
Well a nimbus cloud is not a cloud. If you are referring to a cumulonimbus cloud than yes. A cumulonimbus cloud is a storm cloud. Clouds that have names that include -nimbus or nimbo- are likely to produce precipitation.
What are some good names for a Strawberry cloud leopard?
1. Strawberry 2. Jewel 3. Pink Fluff 4. Spots That's all i can think of.
What are some names of rainforests around the world?
the amazon rainforestthe cloud forest
What are some of the names of the known galaxies?
Milky Way, M31 (the Andromeda Galaxy), the Triangulum Galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Small Magellanic Cloud, ...
What are the names of some irregular galaxies?
Canis Major Dwarf and Small Magellanic Cloud are irregular satellite galaxies of the Milky Way.The two irregular galaxies that orbit the Milky Way are the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds.
What are Cloud Servers Please name a few renowned companies offering hosted cloud servers?
Cloud servers are also termed as virtual servers or hosted servers. These are actually not located on any physical location and the best advantage of cloud servers is that, they can be scaled or moved anywhere. And the best part, this transformation doesn't affect the database at all. There are many companies offering cloud servers and other virtual hosting services. Big names like IBM, Amazon, dinCloud are doing a great job in providing cloud services.
What is mean by cloud storage?
it means that the cloud is holding all of the rain
