Scientifically there are 3 kinds of clouds. What are they called?
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cirrus, stratus, and cumulus. however, those are just the three most basic forms of clouds. you have cumulonimbus, for example, which are thunderstorm clouds that form from cumulus clouds. does that help or did i confuse you more????????
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1. Blizzard\n2. Flash flood\n3. Typhoon\n4. Funnel cloud\n5. Tornado\n6. Monsoon
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Clouds form when the invisible water vapor in the air condenses into visible water droplets or ice crystals. This can happen in three ways.\n\n1. The air is cooled below its saturation point. This happens when the air comes in contact with a cold surface or a surface that is cooling by radiation, or the air is cooled by adiabatic expansion (rising). This can happen\n\nalong warm and cold fronts (frontal lift), \nwhere air flows up the side of a mountain and cools as it rises higher into the atmosphere (orographic lift), \nby the convection caused by the warming of a surface by insolation (diurnal heating), \nwhen warm air blows over a colder surface such as a cool body of water. \n2. Clouds can be formed when two air masses below saturation point mix. Examples are breath on a cold day, aircraft contrails, and Arctic sea smoke.\n\n3. The air stays the same temperature but absorbs more water vapor into it until it reaches saturation.\n\nThe water in a typical cloud can have a mass of up to several million tonnes. However the volume of a cloud is correspondingly high, and the net density of water vapor is actually low enough that air currents below and within the cloud are capable of keeping small droplets suspended. As well, conditions inside a cloud are not static: water droplets are constantly forming and re-evaporating. A typical cloud droplet has a radius on the order of 1 x 10-5 m and a terminal velocity of about 1-2 cm/s. This give these droplets plenty of time to re-evaporate as they fall into in the warmer air beneath the cloud.\n\nMost water droplets are formed when water vapor condenses around a condensation nucleus, a tiny particle of smoke, dust, ash, or salt. In supersaturated conditions, water droplets may act as condensation nuclei.\n\nWater droplets large enough to fall to the ground are produced in two ways. The most important is through the Bergeron Process, theorized by Tor Bergeron, in which supercooled water droplets and ice crystals in a cloud interact to produce the rapid growth of ice crystals, which precipitate from the cloud and melt as they fall. This process typically takes place in clouds with tops cooler than -15°C. The second most important process is the collision and wake capture process, occurring in clouds with warmer tops, in which the collision of rising and falling water droplets produces larger and larger droplets, which are eventually heavy enough to overcome air currents in the cloud and the updraft beneath it and fall as rain. As a droplet falls through the smaller droplets which surround it, it produces a "wake" which draws some of the smaller droplets into collisions, thus perpetuating the process. This method of raindrop production is the primary mechanism in low stratiform clouds and small cumulus clouds in trade winds and tropical regions, and produces raindrops of several millimeters diameter.\n\n \nThis wave cloud pattern formed off of the Île Amsterdam in the far southern Indian Ocean.The actual form of cloud created depends on the strength of the uplift and on air stability. In unstable conditions convection dominates, creating vertically developed clouds. Stable air produces horizontally homogeneous clouds. Frontal uplift creates various cloud forms depending on the composition of the front (ana-type or kata-type warm or cold front). Orographic uplift also creates variable cloud forms depending on air stability, although cap cloud and wave clouds are specific to orographic clouds.
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Convection leads to upward air movement, which in turn cools down the air. Cool air can hold less humidity, so a plume of mist forms where the formerly warm air gets cooled down. The droplets have a tendency to sink down but are moved up again by the convection which created them, thereby concentrating in one volume.\n\nStrong wind currents won't blow them apart but carry them along. What breaks up a cloud are irregular currents, or obstacles.
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Clouds form when the invisible water vapor in the air condenses into visible water droplets or ice crystals. This can happen in three ways.\n\n1. The air is cooled below its saturation point. This happens when the air comes in contact with a cold surface or a surface that is cooling by radiation, or the air is cooled by adiabatic expansion (rising). This can happen\n\nalong warm and cold fronts (frontal lift), \nwhere air flows up the side of a mountain and cools as it rises higher into the atmosphere (orographic lift), \nby the convection caused by the warming of a surface by insolation (diurnal heating), \nwhen warm air blows over a colder surface such as a cool body of water. \n2. Clouds can be formed when two air masses below saturation point mix. Examples are breath on a cold day, aircraft contrails, and Arctic sea smoke.\n\n3. The air stays the same temperature but absorbs more water vapor into it until it reaches saturation.\n\n\nand there's lots more at....
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The main types of clounds are cumulus, stratus, cirrus, and nimbus.  The page below has explanations of these words and pictures of the different types.
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Standing in any cloud you would get wet. Clouds are made up from condensation from rain water. It is water droplets that make the clouds in the first place.
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cirrus cloud is a type of cloud composed of ice crystals and characterized by thin, wisplike strands, often accompanied by tufts. Sometimes these wispy clouds are so extensive that they are virtually indistinguishable from one another, forming a veil or sheet called "cirrostratus". Sometimes convection at high altitudes produces another form of cirrus called "cirrocumulus" a pattern of small cloud tufts. The name "cirrus" is derived from a Latin word meaning "wisp of hair."\n\nMany cirrus clouds produce hairlike filaments made of the heavier ice crystals that precipitate from them. These "fall streaks", a form of virga, often indicate the difference in the motion of air (wind shear) between the upper part of the cirrus cloud and the air below it. Sometimes the top of the cirrus cloud is moving rapidly above a slower layer of air, or the streak is falling into a faster moving lower layer. The directions of these winds can also vary.\n\nCirrus usually form at altitudes above 5000 meters (16,000 feet). The fall streaks may appear straight when wind shear is absent, giving the clouds the appearance of a comma (cirrus uncinus), or tangled, an indication of high-level turbulence. The falling ice crystals evaporate before reaching the ground.\n\nCirrus clouds contribute both to the atmosphere's greenhouse effect and to the earth's albedo (the amount of sunlight the earth reflects); consequently it has not been determined for certain whether the net effect of cirrus clouds is to warm or cool the earth. Much of the difficulty lies in modelling the albedo effect of clouds composed of various size and shape crystals. Older models tended to underestimate the albedo effect of cirrus. Refinements of these models will improve climate predictions.\n\nIf there are many cirrus clouds in the sky it may be a sign that a frontal system or upper air disturbance is approaching. Cirrus clouds can also be the remnants of a thunderstorm. A large shield of cirrus and cirrostratus typically accompanies the high altitude outflow of hurricanes/typhoons.
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The answer is Cirrus Clouds.\n\nA cirrus cloud is a type of cloud composed of ice crystals and characterized by thin, wisplike strands, often accompanied by tufts. Sometimes these wispy clouds are so extensive that they are virtually indistinguishable from one another, forming a veil or sheet called "cirrostratus". Sometimes convection at high altitudes produces another form of cirrus called "cirrocumulus" a pattern of small cloud tufts. The name "cirrus" is derived from a Latin word meaning "wisp of hair."\n\nMany cirrus clouds produce hairlike filaments made of the heavier ice crystals that precipitate from them. These "fall streaks", a form of virga, often indicate the difference in the motion of air (wind shear) between the upper part of the cirrus cloud and the air below it. Sometimes the top of the cirrus cloud is moving rapidly above a slower layer of air, or the streak is falling into a faster moving lower layer. The directions of these winds can also vary.\n\nCirrus usually form at altitudes above 5000 meters (16,000 feet). The fall streaks may appear straight when wind shear is absent, giving the clouds the appearance of a comma (cirrus uncinus), or tangled, an indication of high-level turbulence. The falling ice crystals evaporate before reaching the ground.\n\nCirrus clouds contribute both to the atmosphere's greenhouse effect and to the earth's albedo (the amount of sunlight the earth reflects); consequently it has not been determined for certain whether the net effect of cirrus clouds is to warm or cool the earth. Much of the difficulty lies in modelling the albedo effect of clouds composed of various size and shape crystals. Older models tended to underestimate the albedo effect of cirrus. Refinements of these models will improve climate predictions.\n\nIf there are many cirrus clouds in the sky it may be a sign that a frontal system or upper air disturbance is approaching. Cirrus clouds can also be the remnants of a thunderstorm. A large shield of cirrus and cirrostratus typically accompanies the high altitude outflow of hurricanes/typhoons. Cirrus clouds have been observed to develop after the persistent formation of condensation trails from aircraft. The effects of condensation trails on cirrus cloud enhancement is an increasingly prominent part of the discussion about aviation and climate change.\n\nCirrus and Aviation Cirrus (- Smog, see: Contrail) filter the sunlight, thus altering the quality and diminishing the quantity of the Sun's radiation that reaches the surface of Earth.
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Evaporation: Water from a lake, stream or any body of water forms into a gas and rises up into the sky.\n\nCondensation: The evaporated water cools down in the higher atmosphere and forms small molecules. Many of these small molecules stick together to form clouds.\n\nPrecipitation: Once the cloud is too big and can't hold that much water, the water falls down as either rain, hail, sleet, or snow, depending on the temperature.\n\nCollection: The water falls into a body of water and collects there. Then it evaporates into the air again and the water cycle starts all over.
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In 1896 the International Cloud Atlas was published.  It listed 10 diferent kinds of clouds.  Cloud #9 was cumulo-nimbus, which is the highest type of cloud there is.\n\nHope this helps :-)
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Cloud reading is a fascinating hobby, and a life-saving ability for sailors, mountain climbers and others who find themselves in the wide open spaces. \nYou need to learn about basic kinds of clouds -- the various types of cumulus clouds,for example -- and how they react in your geographical area. Clouds interact with mountains and with water. They load up when they travel over a body of water (the ocean, a lake, etc.) and when they meet a mountain they have to rise to go over it. So, they drop their water. That gives you rain on one side of the mountain and dry conditions on the other side. \nA good place to learn about clouds is from your local weather center (check the nearest airport for the meteorological station closest to you) or you might even give your local TV weatherman a call.
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Clouds are formed by water vapor. And high pressure can hold more water vapor. So when vapor moves into a low pressure system it condenses and and forms clouds and those clouds precipitate when the system cant hold no more water vapor
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I would say winter, you said summer might be, but those clouds usually are from thunderstoms, which die out rather quickly, but winter makes snow storms that can last for days, so, if I was to give an answer, I would say winter. Also, I live in Arizona, so you don't have to trust me on this one :>)
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How scientific do you want it?\n\nBasically, air circulates the earth.\n\nThis air has different temperatures in different places.\n\nThe different temperatures cause different pressures of air masses.\n\nBecause of this air flows around air masses due to the pressure gradient between different masses.\n\nThis air flow drags air of even higher temperature differences into contact.\n\nDifferent air temperatures meet causing one to rise over the other, as this rising air goes up it cools and causes clouds (These areas where air masses join are the fronts on a weather map).\n\nThese clouds then produce rain.\n\nThat rain changes temperatures, more air masses are drawn into contact, and the cycle repeats.
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cloud nine\nFrom Wiktionary\nJump to: navigation, search\nContents\n[hide]\n\n    * 1 English\n          o 1.1 Etymology\n          o 1.2 Noun\n          o 1.3 Synonyms\n          o 1.4 See also\n\n[edit]\n\nEnglish\n[edit]\n\nEtymology\n\n    From the 1896 edition of the International Cloud Atlas which defined ten types of cloud. The ninth cloud was the cumulo-nimbus rising to a height of 10 km, which is the highest a cloud can be.\n\n[edit]\n\nNoun\n\ncloud nine\n\n   1. (informal) a state of happiness, elation or bliss; often used in the phrase on cloud nine\n\n[edit]\n\nSynonyms\n\n    * cloud number nine
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Clouds are characterized by their height.  Low, medium, high, and extensive vertical development.  Then they are given prefixes and suffixes such as "nimbus" for rain clouds, and "alto" for low clouds, just to name a couple.  There are two main types of clouds: Cumulus (which are the puffy white ones)are associated with an unstable atmosphere, good visibility, and intermitten precipitation. Stratus (which are long and skinny) on the other hand are associated with a stable atmosphere, poor visibility, and steady precipitation.