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    There are ten basic cloud types arranged into three divisions based on altitude: low, middle, and high clouds. Low clouds include cumulus, cumulonimbus, stratus, and stratocumulus between 0-6,500 feet. Middle clouds are altocumulus, altostratus, and nimbostratus between 6,500-20,000 feet. High clouds are cirrus, cirrocumulus, and cirrostratus above 20,000 feet. These ten cloud types can be further divided into 27 classifications based on development, opacity, or sky cover.

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    There are ten basic cloud types arranged into three divisions based on altitude: low, middle, and high clouds. Low clouds include cumulus, cumulonimbus, stratus, and stratocumulus between 0-6,500 feet. Middle clouds are altocumulus, altostratus, and nimbostratus between 6,500-20,000 feet. High clouds are cirrus, cirrocumulus, and cirrostratus above 20,000 feet. These ten cloud types can be further divided into 27 classifications based on development, opacity, or sky cover.

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    There are ten basic cloud types arranged into three divisions based on altitude: low, middle, and high clouds. Low clouds include cumulus, cumulonimbus, stratus, and stratocumulus between 0-6,500 feet. Middle clouds are altocumulus, altostratus, and nimbostratus between 6,500-20,000 feet. High clouds are cirrus, cirrocumulus, and cirrostratus above 20,000 feet. These ten cloud types can be further divided into 27 classifications based on development, opacity, or sky cover.

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    Cirrostratus

    High Clouds
    Cirrus

    Cirrocumulus
    20,000 ft.

    Altostratus

    Middle Clouds
    Nimbostratus
    Altocumulus
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    6,500 ft.

    Low Clouds
    Stratocumulus

    Cumulonimbus
    Stratus Cumulus

    NOAA Cloudwise
    There are ten basic cloud types arranged in three divisions based on the altitude at which they form. Low
    level clouds are Cumulus, Cumulonimbus, Stratus, and Stratocumulus. Middle level clouds are Altocumulus,
    Altostratus and Nimbostratus. High level clouds are Cirrus, Cirrocumulus and Cirrostratus. Precipitation
    primarily occurs from Cumulus, Cumulonimbus and Nimbostratus.

    These ten clouds are further divided into 27 classifications. Many of these classifications represent the same
    basic cloud type (or combinations of clouds) but in various stages of development, opacity, or sky cover.

    Learn more about clouds at www.weather.gov/jetstream


    www.noaa.gov/education www.weather.gov

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