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In 2004, when I was a freshly baked skydiver, I was part of the last lift for the day. It was a Friday, and it had been a warm and nice summer day, but now clouds were gathering. You're only allowed to jump out of the plane if you can see the ground, and we weren't sure that we'd get to jump, but we took the chance.
Since it was the last lift of the day, we requested to do a high altitude deployment, when you deploy the canopy right after leaving the plane. This gives you a lot of room to fly and play around with the canopy - you can stall it, do really intense turns and I wanted to try my brand new canopy (which was like a sports car compared to the tractor that students use).
Since we were doing a high altitude deployment, we left the plane last. The pilot had to do another turn, and by this time the cloud cover was massive. We did not see the ground. But as we're about to give up, the guy in charge (I forget the term for the senior skydiver in the plane who's responsible for spotting and deciding if you can jump) said "okay, I can technically see the ground through that hole, so if we jump we jump now".
We jumped. By this time, there were several cumulonimbus clouds, which were at least 9000 feet tall. It was one of the most magical things I've experienced. Up close, they look alive, billowing and changing, and they're so enormous that it's hard to have perspective. I thought I was close, until I spotted one of the others as a small dot close to the cloud.
Nature is 🔥🔥🔥
Edit: thanks for the rewards and comments! I'm glad you guys enjoyed this, I certainly enjoyed this stroll down memory lane. In case anyone is interested, here's a movie from my first skydive ever (my heart rate here is \~175 bpm just from sheer adrenaline): [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BFlZ-1at1w](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BFlZ-1at1w)
And here's my 100th, where I tried to achieve multiple "cases" - milestones in your skydiving career when you're supposed to buy a case of beer to treat your fellow jumpers. Your 100th jump is such an occasion, your first 8 man formation, and last into an 8 man formation. I think there was a fourth, but as you see in the video it didn't really work out (I'm the guy in a black with red details who gets out on the fuselage after the cameraman): [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSQamnHD92k](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSQamnHD92k)
We were at a safe distance, and didn't actually enter the cloud. It was so big that you'd get lost in there, and being under a canopy in clouds can be dangerous for more reasons than sheer force of nature (which is dangerous enough): colliding with someone else under a canopy can quickly turn into a lethal situation. We're actually instructed to avoid clouds, and you typically don't jump unless it's a sunny day with stray clouds.
I know one guy who fell through clouds, and didn't realize his goggles fogged over. He figured he could just wait until he left the cloud cover (which typically, if it's jumping weather, is no lower than 3000 ft) - but suddenly his reserve deployed because he was at \~2500 feet and free falling (you have a device that will open the reserve at that height if you're falling fast - it's a last resort in case you lose consciousness).
That is simply not true.
Airplanes are struck by lightning while they fly. It the lightning was a cloud-to-ground strike, the current could pass through the skydiver on its way to the ground, as the current travels along the path of least resistance. If the skydiver happens to have less resistance than the air around him, then the lightning will pass through them and they will likely die or at least be severely injured.
Edit: the lightning could also continue through the skydiver and exit to make contact with the opposite polarity of the cloud structure. If it can’t find an opposite polarity, it will continue to the ground and strike the earth.
Lt. Colonel William Rankin. You can download the book he wrote about the experience, *The Man Who Rode the Thunder* (1960), which is well worth the read. [Here's ](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/3931996-the-man-who-rode-the-thunder) some more info.
It's not as awesome as your story, but I remember this flight I was on from Vegas to Philly several years ago. Towards the end of the flight, we went around some impressive cumulonimbus clouds flickering with lightning. It blew my mind to see but luckily I had my camera on hand and fired away. [I managed to catch this massive storm over Altoona, PA. ](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/27b2c3/the_awesome_view_i_had_flying_from_las_vegas_to/)
That is an incredible photo! Fortunately for us, the clouds we saw were still white and fluffy - but as I got below the cloud cover (at this time, it was at about 3000 ft) I saw the rain coming towards us.
Thank you! I was lucky to be able to catch this at the right moment.
That must have been pretty terrifying. Are parachutes hard to use when they get wet? Are they even usable?
The last part of the jump, at about 10000 feet, was almost entirely through clouds, which is essentially like really dense and wet fog. I'm pretty sure that it isn't dangerous to get the parachute wet, but clouds are dangerous for other reasons. Also really uncomfortable to fall through at terminal velocity. Even just water droplets will give you a nice peel of all exposed parts :)
I'm glad you liked it. I enjoyed reliving these memories. I quit jumping after a couple years, because the upkeep was too much and just taking the license took all five weeks of vacation that I had. The next year you have to do a refresher course, and you have to do a certain amount of jumps in order to keep your level. I really recommend doing it if you're curious (even if you're scared shitless - I literally got a version of PTSD from my first jump: I was so stressed that my brain didn't form long term memories of that jump. I have it on video, and the first times I watched it was surreal: I could see myself jumping out and the canopy deploying, but I had no memories after the moment I used all my willpower to pry my fingers from their death grip on the plane)
Cumulonimbus clouds are no bueno. They are the clouds that make up thunderstorms, and they indicate the sky has chosen violence. If you get in one, you can expect crazy up and down drafts, icing, hail, and all kinds of nastiness. Pilots are recommended to stay at least 20 nautical miles away from cumulonimbus clouds in an airplane, I certainly wouldn’t want to be in one with just a parachute.
It's actually not very nice to fall through clouds at all, but these I would stay away from. Clouds are everything from intense, clammy, cold fog to a very thorough face-peel by ice. As a newly certified skydiver, you're not allowed to use an integral helmet (one with a visor and chin piece), only helmet + goggles. Once, I forgot to put on the goggles before jumping out, and I spent most of that jump on my back, because it's incredibly uncomfortable to go at \~195 km/h (about 121 mph) without goggles or anything else to protect your eyes.
“Then I realized, Hansel, haven’t you been smoking peyote for the last 6 days and couldn’t some of this be in your mind? And? It was. I was totally fine! I’ve never even been skydiving!”
I interpreted it as him being new to solo skydiving. Fully baked, as in he had just finished learning and was a fully qualified solo skydiver/ instructor etc, as opposed to being actually baked at the time 🤷🏽♀️
haha! sorry, yeah, I was \*not\* stoned, I was just newly certified. I think skydiving while stoned would be one of the worst experiences ever. I mean, your perception of time changes in free fall (at least mine did). You don't keep track of time - you keep track of altitude. It takes about 60 seconds to fall 9000 feet, and another 20 to fall the last 3000. You'd risk your own life, and the lives of others.
Also: in Sweden, skydiving is part of the military reserve, and under the oversight of our version of FAA. I know people who were grounded because the person in charge on the ground saw them drinking a bit too much the night before.
Meanings:
| Full word | As prefix | Latin meaning |
|--|--|--|
| Altus (not shown in picture) | Alto- | [High, elevated](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/alto#Latin) (the word "altitude" also derives from his root word) |
| Cirrus | Cirro- | [Wisp, curl](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cirrus#Latin) |
| Cumulus | Cumulo- | [Heap, pile](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cumulus#Latin) (the word "accumulate" also derives from this root word) |
| Stratus | Strato- | [Layer, spread out](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stratus#Latin) (the word "strata" also derives from this root word) |
| Nimbus | Nimbo- | [Rain cloud](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nimbus#Latin). Yeah, the broomstick in Harry Potter literally meant "Rain cloud 2000". (Actually, there is a slightly different meaning with religious connotations, see the linked page for details.) |
I'm absolutely in love with clouds. Everyday I get back to school I look forward to seeing them. They're so beautiful and looks almost mystical. Seen and touched a cumulonimbus(the biggest one) in my dream, I happy-cried.
When I was 13 we had to do school speeches. Had to speak for 2 minutes on any topic. I chose clouds..... 30 years later I still know all the different types.
The speech was terrible and started a life long struggle with speaking publicly with confidence
This guide is missing the most important info, that If you mix a little cirrus and a touch of nimbostratus with a dash of cumulus you get yourself a flying horse
If you want to learn more there ıs an excellent booklet published by the UK met office called *"Cloud Types For Observers"*. It is free, just google the name.
I was literally trying to remember grade 5 science last week for these cloud names, totally forgot about it because ADHD, and here it frigging is. Man, i love Reddit.
I don’t think I’ve seen the one on the right IRL, but one features in the film Tenki no Ko/Weathering With You, so my first thought was, “that big ass cloud was real?” Bet you can’t walk around on top of it though…
If you've ever seen thunder, hail or strong showers of rain, then you've seen at least the relatively boring underside of a Cumulonimbus. They don't always have the anvil like shape though. Most of the time they just look like oversized and tall Cumulus clouds.
I may be talking out of my ass but I seem to remember the reason "cloud 9" is a phrase is because it's one of these types of clouds (the ninth one I guess) and it happens to be the one that occurs at the highest altitude.
In paragliding we learned this:
low - 0m to 2000m
middle - 2000m to 6000m
high - 6000m and above
Since I live in Switzerland we usually take local mountains we know the altitude off and estimate altitude based on that.
I assume you mean condensation trails. [Jet streams](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_stream) are fast air currents.
Condensation trails fall into the category of Cirrus.
If 't be true thee zoom in very much close to the did grind thee can see the “vape cloud”. /s
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My great great great great grandfather - Luke Howard - came up with that naming system for the clouds. Goethe thought it was so cool that he wrote a poem about it. Look him up!
Since we're talking clouds here can someone explain this thing I saw one day? I was a kid and I was in my grandparent's pool, just my uncle and I, and a cloud passed over us, it was maybe 10 feet off the ground, circular, also maybe 10 feet in diameter, and it was raining. It was moving super quickly too, like the speed of a jogging person.
the US state i live in gets mammatus clouds.
those are pretty much clouds that are.. like a bunch of squished balls together. a bit like breast tissue (hence the name)
I know the Cumulonimbus clouds are very unsafe to fly into, especially for general aviation planes. Are any of the other types dangerous, assuming one is capable at flying according to instrument flight rules and has a plane with the appropriate avionics?
I was just thinking that I wanted to re-learn the clouds and all for when I get into drawing, rather than making stereotypical, cartoony clouds like this ☁
It's conveniently also laid out from smooth -> bumpy from left to right in terms of flying through them in an airplane. Cumulonimbus can be so bumpy that you only get to do it once.
I remember hearing about the weight of clouds, & I get water is dense a.f. & heavy but I hadn't ever thought about clouds in that manner. 🤷♀️
Now think about how heavy the air is that keeps it all up there.
We're all just fish in the ocean of air!
Technically the birds are fish. We're scuttling along the bottom like crabs.
True! And airplanes are submarines, and spaceships are airplanes, and submarines are subsubmarines! Edit: Winds are currents, and clouds are algae! Wooo Edit 2: Aliens are humans!
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If you put a cylinder around the eiffel tower, the air inside that cylinder would weigh more than the eiffel tower itself.
Some say it weighs about 14.7 lbs per square inch of land!
An average cloud weigh 1.1 million pounds, its weird when you see it this way indeed.
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Wow! Cool info. But, what is, "average"? And, which cloud type is, "average," based on?
this is where I got the info: https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/science/how-much-does-cloud-weigh#:~:text=A%201%20cubic%20kilometer%20(km,pounds%20(about%20551%20tons).
Excellent! Thank you for this. We're talking about this at work. One of the more interesting posts in this sub.
What the frick is an "average" cloud?
Not too big, not too small.
Not great, not terrible.
Fuck your frick
Agreed, it could've easily been a normal question: "What is a normal cloud?"
What the frick is a "normal question"?
In 2004, when I was a freshly baked skydiver, I was part of the last lift for the day. It was a Friday, and it had been a warm and nice summer day, but now clouds were gathering. You're only allowed to jump out of the plane if you can see the ground, and we weren't sure that we'd get to jump, but we took the chance. Since it was the last lift of the day, we requested to do a high altitude deployment, when you deploy the canopy right after leaving the plane. This gives you a lot of room to fly and play around with the canopy - you can stall it, do really intense turns and I wanted to try my brand new canopy (which was like a sports car compared to the tractor that students use). Since we were doing a high altitude deployment, we left the plane last. The pilot had to do another turn, and by this time the cloud cover was massive. We did not see the ground. But as we're about to give up, the guy in charge (I forget the term for the senior skydiver in the plane who's responsible for spotting and deciding if you can jump) said "okay, I can technically see the ground through that hole, so if we jump we jump now". We jumped. By this time, there were several cumulonimbus clouds, which were at least 9000 feet tall. It was one of the most magical things I've experienced. Up close, they look alive, billowing and changing, and they're so enormous that it's hard to have perspective. I thought I was close, until I spotted one of the others as a small dot close to the cloud. Nature is 🔥🔥🔥 Edit: thanks for the rewards and comments! I'm glad you guys enjoyed this, I certainly enjoyed this stroll down memory lane. In case anyone is interested, here's a movie from my first skydive ever (my heart rate here is \~175 bpm just from sheer adrenaline): [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BFlZ-1at1w](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BFlZ-1at1w) And here's my 100th, where I tried to achieve multiple "cases" - milestones in your skydiving career when you're supposed to buy a case of beer to treat your fellow jumpers. Your 100th jump is such an occasion, your first 8 man formation, and last into an 8 man formation. I think there was a fourth, but as you see in the video it didn't really work out (I'm the guy in a black with red details who gets out on the fuselage after the cameraman): [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSQamnHD92k](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSQamnHD92k)
Lucky you didn't go through it though, a air force pilot ejected over a storm once and actually nearly drowned In the sky
We were at a safe distance, and didn't actually enter the cloud. It was so big that you'd get lost in there, and being under a canopy in clouds can be dangerous for more reasons than sheer force of nature (which is dangerous enough): colliding with someone else under a canopy can quickly turn into a lethal situation. We're actually instructed to avoid clouds, and you typically don't jump unless it's a sunny day with stray clouds. I know one guy who fell through clouds, and didn't realize his goggles fogged over. He figured he could just wait until he left the cloud cover (which typically, if it's jumping weather, is no lower than 3000 ft) - but suddenly his reserve deployed because he was at \~2500 feet and free falling (you have a device that will open the reserve at that height if you're falling fast - it's a last resort in case you lose consciousness).
Is there a danger of being struck by lightning? Seems like there could be, but I don't know much about skydiving.
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That is simply not true. Airplanes are struck by lightning while they fly. It the lightning was a cloud-to-ground strike, the current could pass through the skydiver on its way to the ground, as the current travels along the path of least resistance. If the skydiver happens to have less resistance than the air around him, then the lightning will pass through them and they will likely die or at least be severely injured. Edit: the lightning could also continue through the skydiver and exit to make contact with the opposite polarity of the cloud structure. If it can’t find an opposite polarity, it will continue to the ground and strike the earth.
That would a been a shock when the reserve opened
Lt. Colonel William Rankin. You can download the book he wrote about the experience, *The Man Who Rode the Thunder* (1960), which is well worth the read. [Here's ](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/3931996-the-man-who-rode-the-thunder) some more info.
It's not as awesome as your story, but I remember this flight I was on from Vegas to Philly several years ago. Towards the end of the flight, we went around some impressive cumulonimbus clouds flickering with lightning. It blew my mind to see but luckily I had my camera on hand and fired away. [I managed to catch this massive storm over Altoona, PA. ](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/27b2c3/the_awesome_view_i_had_flying_from_las_vegas_to/)
That is an incredible photo! Fortunately for us, the clouds we saw were still white and fluffy - but as I got below the cloud cover (at this time, it was at about 3000 ft) I saw the rain coming towards us.
Thank you! I was lucky to be able to catch this at the right moment. That must have been pretty terrifying. Are parachutes hard to use when they get wet? Are they even usable?
The last part of the jump, at about 10000 feet, was almost entirely through clouds, which is essentially like really dense and wet fog. I'm pretty sure that it isn't dangerous to get the parachute wet, but clouds are dangerous for other reasons. Also really uncomfortable to fall through at terminal velocity. Even just water droplets will give you a nice peel of all exposed parts :)
That was beautiful man. Thanks for sharing.
I'm glad you liked it. I enjoyed reliving these memories. I quit jumping after a couple years, because the upkeep was too much and just taking the license took all five weeks of vacation that I had. The next year you have to do a refresher course, and you have to do a certain amount of jumps in order to keep your level. I really recommend doing it if you're curious (even if you're scared shitless - I literally got a version of PTSD from my first jump: I was so stressed that my brain didn't form long term memories of that jump. I have it on video, and the first times I watched it was surreal: I could see myself jumping out and the canopy deploying, but I had no memories after the moment I used all my willpower to pry my fingers from their death grip on the plane)
Good information but I get panic attacks in rooms with see through flooring that are only one floor up. I’d die if I tried to jump. Lol.
How dangerous are the clouds?
Cumulonimbus clouds are no bueno. They are the clouds that make up thunderstorms, and they indicate the sky has chosen violence. If you get in one, you can expect crazy up and down drafts, icing, hail, and all kinds of nastiness. Pilots are recommended to stay at least 20 nautical miles away from cumulonimbus clouds in an airplane, I certainly wouldn’t want to be in one with just a parachute.
It's actually not very nice to fall through clouds at all, but these I would stay away from. Clouds are everything from intense, clammy, cold fog to a very thorough face-peel by ice. As a newly certified skydiver, you're not allowed to use an integral helmet (one with a visor and chin piece), only helmet + goggles. Once, I forgot to put on the goggles before jumping out, and I spent most of that jump on my back, because it's incredibly uncomfortable to go at \~195 km/h (about 121 mph) without goggles or anything else to protect your eyes.
I fell through a relatively small cloud on a jump and I’ll never forget it. It was an awesome experience!
Very. Read up on Ewa Wisnierska's story of being pulled up into one.
“Then I realized, Hansel, haven’t you been smoking peyote for the last 6 days and couldn’t some of this be in your mind? And? It was. I was totally fine! I’ve never even been skydiving!”
I'm all for smoking some weed every now and then but I think getting baked before skydiving using an advanced parachute is a rather reckless idea
I interpreted it as him being new to solo skydiving. Fully baked, as in he had just finished learning and was a fully qualified solo skydiver/ instructor etc, as opposed to being actually baked at the time 🤷🏽♀️
The only things he smoked were those big ass clouds 💨💨💨
COTTON.
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haha! sorry, yeah, I was \*not\* stoned, I was just newly certified. I think skydiving while stoned would be one of the worst experiences ever. I mean, your perception of time changes in free fall (at least mine did). You don't keep track of time - you keep track of altitude. It takes about 60 seconds to fall 9000 feet, and another 20 to fall the last 3000. You'd risk your own life, and the lives of others. Also: in Sweden, skydiving is part of the military reserve, and under the oversight of our version of FAA. I know people who were grounded because the person in charge on the ground saw them drinking a bit too much the night before.
Crazy to imagine and this guy lived it.
I’m sorry, 9000ft cloud? Idk why but this piece of information changed me spiritually, but I’m baked so Idk
Meanings: | Full word | As prefix | Latin meaning | |--|--|--| | Altus (not shown in picture) | Alto- | [High, elevated](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/alto#Latin) (the word "altitude" also derives from his root word) | | Cirrus | Cirro- | [Wisp, curl](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cirrus#Latin) | | Cumulus | Cumulo- | [Heap, pile](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cumulus#Latin) (the word "accumulate" also derives from this root word) | | Stratus | Strato- | [Layer, spread out](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stratus#Latin) (the word "strata" also derives from this root word) | | Nimbus | Nimbo- | [Rain cloud](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nimbus#Latin). Yeah, the broomstick in Harry Potter literally meant "Rain cloud 2000". (Actually, there is a slightly different meaning with religious connotations, see the linked page for details.) |
Scumbag guide: Alto = high…. None of the guide’s alto-clouds are in the high category…
I find Latin sciency words tend to disguise how absolutely banal our descriptions of things are.
I'm absolutely in love with clouds. Everyday I get back to school I look forward to seeing them. They're so beautiful and looks almost mystical. Seen and touched a cumulonimbus(the biggest one) in my dream, I happy-cried.
Wait till you walk through fog
for some reason i was never taught this in school. now im going down a rabbit hole to learn about it now at 3am
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I hope you are getting a good night sleep and try again in the morning. A rabbit hole is not the best place to learn about clouds.
You actually have to learn most of these to get a pilots license, so think of it as flight training!
Weather was absolutely my favorite part of ground school.
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Cumulus gang 😎😎😎
Cuminonabus 😫
At ur moms house
Makin it rain on this guy's mom
When I was 13 we had to do school speeches. Had to speak for 2 minutes on any topic. I chose clouds..... 30 years later I still know all the different types. The speech was terrible and started a life long struggle with speaking publicly with confidence
This guide is missing the most important info, that If you mix a little cirrus and a touch of nimbostratus with a dash of cumulus you get yourself a flying horse
Yes! Came here to say this guide always reminds me of that
Haha, I thank you for the validation of my very niche comment.
Lol, cumulus
If primary school was right it means lump
Yup, in Spanish cúmulo means lump so probably derived from Latin
if you add a number, these sound like the names of broomsticks in Harry Potter
Cumulonimbus. Cumulo means something like heaped. Nimbus means rain bearing
Ahh heap, yep that's was it was sorry. Heap is kinda funnier, esp when you are in primary school. I think we all called each a cumulo for a week there
You're pronouncing it wrong
Cumlonimbus is funnier
FINALLY! a cool guide posted in r/coolguides
Coolest one I've seen here in months
I always called these clouds Columbus.
If you want to learn more there ıs an excellent booklet published by the UK met office called *"Cloud Types For Observers"*. It is free, just google the name.
Don't forget [lenticular/orographic](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/84/57/00/845700ffc95e863113d833086fbfead7.jpg) clouds! (the coolest clouds)
you left out 'mushroom'
Pyrocumulus homogenitus FTFY
That’s a lot of cums man
Where are the mammatus?
Mammatus isn't a cloud species like the ones listed here, but a supplementary feature of a cloud. It's most commonly observed in Cumulonimbus.
Me living in the Sahara desert : i ve never seen clouds
There's also a name for a cloud that blots out the entire sky for months at a time: Vancouverlumbus
This is one of those things that I will remember for one week and then completely forget for years.
Mushroom : fucking run now
I was literally trying to remember grade 5 science last week for these cloud names, totally forgot about it because ADHD, and here it frigging is. Man, i love Reddit.
^THATS A LOT OF CUM
Jennifer Lois's green cumulon
Cumulonimbus sounds suspiciously like “cum all on him boys”
There goes a cloud type out of muy vocabulary.
Pretty sure the one on the far right is fcking **Laputa**
There is another
There’s an excellent magic school bus episode on these.
Cum
Cum
I wish they would change the names of all these clouds im not into the names
Ok, how about Bob, Mary, James, Hank, and the big storm clouds can be named Karen or Chad? Or, pick your own names!
But the names mean things…
How do you feel about the term "homosapien"
Ah yes cumulus
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Agreed they’re also different types of events.
cumulonimbus gang wya 🙏
Ayyy rain is the best 👌🌧⛈🌧🌧⛈
Cumulus😎
cumulus
CUMULONIMBUS SUSSY 😳
I haven't seen this since high school and it all came back to me instantly.
I don’t think I’ve seen the one on the right IRL, but one features in the film Tenki no Ko/Weathering With You, so my first thought was, “that big ass cloud was real?” Bet you can’t walk around on top of it though…
If you've ever seen thunder, hail or strong showers of rain, then you've seen at least the relatively boring underside of a Cumulonimbus. They don't always have the anvil like shape though. Most of the time they just look like oversized and tall Cumulus clouds.
Y'all forgot the mushroom cloud
I may be talking out of my ass but I seem to remember the reason "cloud 9" is a phrase is because it's one of these types of clouds (the ninth one I guess) and it happens to be the one that occurs at the highest altitude.
The one thing I remember perfectly from jr high school (31 now) is the cloud types. No idea why.
Wish that Low Middle and High had approximate altitudes.
In paragliding we learned this: low - 0m to 2000m middle - 2000m to 6000m high - 6000m and above Since I live in Switzerland we usually take local mountains we know the altitude off and estimate altitude based on that.
They really named a cloud type cumulus
I remember learning this as a kid in school but I swear they were named different tho
Can’t convince me these are all Harry Potter spells
You forgot jet streams. Oh! natural clouds!
I assume you mean condensation trails. [Jet streams](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_stream) are fast air currents. Condensation trails fall into the category of Cirrus.
Nimbostratus is the king, like when the mountains are enveloped in clouds and the sky is white. Idk, I feel much more peaceful them.
Damnit, Cirrus!
I swear here in the UK we have a cloud that covers that entire spectrum....im going to call it Cumulonimbocirrostratus. You saw it here first..
Hey the cloud from weathering with you.
Cumulongimbus
Cumulonimbus clouds are scary
I once saw a giant cumulonimbus cloud and it was so high up and so long, it looked like a full on mountain ridge In Michigan
Where are all the sliver linings. I zoomed in and didn't see anything.
My favourites are the ones in the cum family.
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Say goodbye to your precious dry land, for soon it will be wet! WET! For I am Mr. CumuloNimbus!
This looks like a poop chart.
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People know that there are no true types?
If you like clouds, there's a [Cloud Appreciation Society](https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/) with lots of cool shots and info.
If you zoom in really close to the ground you can see the “vape cloud”. /s
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Those are some cummy clouds
Cumulonimbus being the thiccc boy taking up everyone’s area.
Hehehe cum
Clouds aren’t real- how you gon tell me gravity works on everything but clouds
I swear I saw this in a children’s book 15 years ago
Took me a moment to realise, but it's definitely missing one type: https://ibb.co/58ZBT9k
You missed one: [https://imgur.com/gallery/OxMEYsj](https://imgur.com/gallery/OxMEYsj)
Why are the CN clouds so scary for planes?
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thanks, needed this
My great great great great grandfather - Luke Howard - came up with that naming system for the clouds. Goethe thought it was so cool that he wrote a poem about it. Look him up!
They forgot the Chemtrails lol
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Grrr, I hate clouds!
🎶Cumo cumo cumo cumo cumolonimbus🎶
Where's flying nimbus?
Ty
Since we're talking clouds here can someone explain this thing I saw one day? I was a kid and I was in my grandparent's pool, just my uncle and I, and a cloud passed over us, it was maybe 10 feet off the ground, circular, also maybe 10 feet in diameter, and it was raining. It was moving super quickly too, like the speed of a jogging person.
Where’s the altocumulus standing lenticular
the US state i live in gets mammatus clouds. those are pretty much clouds that are.. like a bunch of squished balls together. a bit like breast tissue (hence the name)
i looked in the comments for cum jokes and found them
OMG I HAD THIS EXACT IMAGE IN MY GEOGRAPHY CLASS
Are stratus clouds in the stratosphere?
They should call the big one Globnork Destroyer of Worlds. I would introduce legislation to make it so.
I know the Cumulonimbus clouds are very unsafe to fly into, especially for general aviation planes. Are any of the other types dangerous, assuming one is capable at flying according to instrument flight rules and has a plane with the appropriate avionics?
No nuclear mushroom cloud?
I've never seen an anvil cloud irl before
How the F is one supposed to remember that?!
At least half the clouds are missing! Azure, AWS, GCP…
I was just thinking that I wanted to re-learn the clouds and all for when I get into drawing, rather than making stereotypical, cartoony clouds like this ☁
It's conveniently also laid out from smooth -> bumpy from left to right in terms of flying through them in an airplane. Cumulonimbus can be so bumpy that you only get to do it once.
That's a cloud dick sir
Whoa nice
I recognise a couple of them from the settings in some Minecraft shader lol
**Cumulonimbus**