"Broken clouds" mean that the sky is covered between 5/8 and 7/8 with clouds.
Cirrus clouds usually approach with fair weather, but the fair weather may later indicate that a storm/thunderstorm is approaching.
Clouds form when water starts to condense, so clouds eventually grow until they rain themselves to death-clouds mean rain.
Cirrus clouds are thin wispy clouds. They are over 6 kilometers up. It is freezing up there, so they are made of ice crystals. They can mean bad weather is on the way.
weather offshore
More than 100 spectral channels made by spectrometer
cirrus clouds mean usually fair (good) weather
high clouds means there will be good weather and low clouds mean stormy weather
high thin clouds mean good weather now, but bad weather in the next 48 hours.
You mean stratus clouds? Stratus clouds can bring rain but not tornadoes.
certain clouds mean certain things
Snow or rain.
Stratocumulus clouds brings very little precipitation but they can bring light drizzle or a tad bit of snow.
Cumulus clouds are puffy. They have flat bottoms and are low in the sky. Cumulus clouds usually mean fair weather. If they grow tall, they can become thunderheads and bring rain.Cirrus clouds are the highest clouds. They usually mean fair weather. They look white and feathery.Stratus clouds are the low clouds. Fog is a stratus cloud at ground level. They look like a low gray blanket. Stratus clouds bring rain or snow.
Yellow clouds on a radar mean that the rain quantities are not light nor heavy and the storm has a small chance of severe weather.
Cumulus clouds from usually mean fair weather , but they can produce light rain or snow showers
they are mid altitude clouds, forms when warm air rises, they are also puffy, white clouds that tend to have flat bottoms, and they indicate fair weather
low level fair weather clouds, that may bring rain