Nimbostratus

Description: wet looking cloudy layer associated with continously falling rain or snow

Height: below 2000 meters

Color: dark gray

Size: cloudy layer

Weather: light showers and snow

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Stratus

Description: made up of tiny droplets of water or frozen ice crystals, kind of looks like fog that doesn"t reach the ground

Height: below 2000 meters

Color: uniform gray

Size: puffy

Weather: drizzle or mist

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Altocumulus

Description: mid-level clouds, are made up of water droplets

Height: round 2000-7000 meters

Seize: gray puffy masses

Color: gray

Weather: formed ahead of stroms and continous rain or snow

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Altostratus

Description : mid-level clouds composed of ice crystals and water droplets

Height: about 2000 - 7000 meters

Shape: covers the whole sky

Color: gray or blueish - gray

Weather: ahead of snow and rain

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Cirrostratus

Description: thin , sheet like clouds

Height: above 7000 meters

Shape: thin almost looks like a halo

Color: clear but in this picture it looks like a rainbow

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Cirrus

Description: feathery ice clouds

Height: above 7000 meters

Shape: thin and wispy

Color: clear but mostly white

Weather: fair weather, but usually inicates a change in weather

Source of Photograph: http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://thepioneerwoman.com/homeschooling/files/2009/09/cirrus-clouds_1022.jpg&imgrefurl=http://thepioneerwoman.com/homeschooling/2009/09/smartypants-quiz-1-answers-and-wieners/&usg=__uIo7w-xuqaUOpkSa11K0iQIIAsk=&h=307&w=468&sz=27&hl=en&start=4&sig2=NDEN5VraYiMnCCUo9kNATQ&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=ZMmiU-iN8A7fGM:&tbnh=84&tbnw=128&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcirrus%2Bclouds%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26tbs%3Disch:1&ei=tDgFTIrjIIKglAecorGXDQ