clouds

Ever since I was a child, I was always curious about the world around me. In my opinion, I always felt like intelligence is really a measurement of one's natural curiosity of the world and existence.

In 4th grade, I learned all about clouds, which made it so much easier to name what I saw before me!

Cirrus clouds are long and wispy like horse tails, and they're actually formed so high up in the sky that they're really ice crystals.

Cumulus are large, fat, white, puffy clouds that are usually a sign of good weather.

Stratus clouds blanket the whole sky, and they're usually a sign of rain.

Nimbus are black rain clouds, but they really mean precipitation.

But all those clouds can be mixed together- such as cumulonimbus, or thunderheads. Nibostratus, Cirrostratus... the list goes on.

But things change, and it seems like there's a new kind of cloud out there in the world that meteorologists have yet to name. I do admit, I've never seen anything like this before.

The cloud with no name: Meteorologists campaign to classify unique 'Asperatus' clouds seen across the world