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What are the types, shapes, locations and weather signs of clouds?

Clear sky summary table

name

change of form

location

thickness

Weather omen

cirrus

When floating, it sometimes looks like a white silk thread.

highest

filmy

Symbolize sunshine

cirrocumulus

Cirrus clouds line up in the air, just like ripples caused by a breeze blowing over the water.

very high

Very thin

No rain, no snow.

cumulus

Like a cotton ball, it appears in the morning and dissipates gradually at night.

About two kilometers.

attenuant

The sunshine is mild

altocumulus clouds

Like the white sheep on the grassland, they are arranged in groups of oblate spheres.

About two kilometers.

attenuant

merry

Brief table of changes of rain, snow and hail clouds

name

Shape change process

location

Weather omen

cirrostratus

Cirrus clouds gather, as if covered with a layer of white silk curtain, and cirrus clouds slowly move forward.

high

Sunny to cloudy

altostratus

Cirrostratus is getting lower and thicker, covering the sun like ground glass.

low

It will rain and snow.

Cloud

The high-level clouds become lower and thicker, and dark gray clouds cover the sky.

reduce

Continuous rain and snow weather

cumulonimbus

Cumulus clouds quickly formed a tall Yunshan, with dark clouds.

reduce

Thunderstorm hail

Brief table of cloud weather knowledge

light

Power generation and distribution

colour

Weather omen

foolish

Produced on the cirrostratus, distributed around the sun and the moon.

Infrared violet

Solar halo may bring midnight rain.

Lunar halo noon wind

Magnificent

Rihua and Yuehua mostly appear at the edge of cumulus clouds.

Plum violet red

Huahuan grew up sunny.

It rains from big to small in Central China.

rainbow

After a storm comes a calm, on the cloud curtain opposite the sun

Color arc

The east rainbow roared and the west rainbow rained.

pink clouds

Sooner or later, the sun shines on the red clouds.

The clouds turn red.

Don't go out at sunrise.

Wan Li at sunset.