What do Scattered clouds mean?

: clouds covering one tenth to one half of the sky.

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What are the four types of cloud?

The Four Core Types of Clouds Cirro-form. The Latin word 'cirro' means curl of hair. Cumulo-form. Generally detached clouds, they look like white fluffy cotton balls. Strato-form. From the Latin word for 'layer' these clouds are usually broad and fairly wide spread appearing like a blanket. Nimbo-form. What are flat bottomed clouds called? Cumulus clouds Cumulus clouds, those puffy clouds common in the sky during warm days, especially in the summer, are indeed flat-bottomed. It's because of the way they form. They exist at the top of columns of warm air rising into the sky from the ground. Sunshine heats the ground, and the ground heats the air above it.

Keeping this in consideration, what are big clouds called?

Cumulonimbus is fluffy and white like cumulus but the cloud formations are far larger. It's a vertical developing type of cloud whose base grows from one to up to eight kilometers, hence it's commonly called a tower cloud. For the same reason, cumulonimbus is both a low-level and high-level type of cloud. Correspondingly, what do fast moving clouds mean? The higher up you go in the sky, the faster the clouds move. This is because the wind is faster at higher heights above the surface. These clouds are following a particularly strong wind, called the jet stream.

Thereof, which is the highest cloud in the sky?

Noctilucent cloud Noctilucent clouds, or night shining clouds, are tenuous cloud-like phenomena in the upper atmosphere of Earth. They are the highest clouds in Earth's atmosphere, located in the mesosphere at altitudes of around 76 to 85 km (249,000 to 279,000 ft). What do cloud formations mean? Though they look different, all clouds are condensed water droplets in the air. They form when warm, moist air rises upward. Except instead of spilling over the glass, the water in the air condenses around dust particles that are floating around. As these droplets build up in the sky, they form a cloud.