Question: What is the difference between a cloud higher or lower in the sky? What are stratus and cirrus clouds? — Jayden Wilkins Answer: Stratus clouds are smooth clouds that usually occur in the ...

When's the last time you went cloud-gazing? Sinking, rising, spreading, changing—there’s always something exciting happening to the clouds overhead. The big puffy ones—what are they called? And the ...

IN his “Instructions for Observing Clouds” (London, 1888, p. 12), Hon. Ralph Abercromby defines stratus as “a thin uniform layer of cloud at a very low level,” and as an illustration reproduces a ...