News Weather The science behind clouds and how to remember their (latin) names Mon., June 23, 2025 Storm clouds gather above a train in 2023 as it rolls through the Pleasantview Road crossing near ...

Other clouds that formerly went by more colloquial names, such as the wave-like Kelvin-Helmoltz cloud, and fallstreak holes, will now be recognized with the Latin names fluctus and cavum ...

The cloud with no name: Meteorologists campaign to classify unique 'Asperatus' clouds seen across the world By LUKE SALKELD FOR THE DAILY MAIL Updated: 04:25 EDT, 2 June 2009 ...

People who study the weather, called meteorologists, have several different names for clouds. The name changes based on how the clouds look. These differently shaped clouds can also tell you how ...

It's a rare type of cloud, and a fairly new type of cloud. In 2017, this cloud type was officially recognized by the WMO. It was the first new cloud identified since 1951.

Howard describes clouds with conical shapes increasing upward from a flat base as "cumulus" from the Latin term for "heap." A bit more colorfully, he also described them as "wool bag clouds." ...

AMONG other things that have been changed in order to keep abreast of the times is the nomenclature of the clouds. While there has not been much difference in the appearance, a necessity has for a ...