Even the tops of typical
cumulonimbus clouds, in contrast, rarely rise out of the troposphere.
For example, the larger size of many newer homes, especially those with few large trees around them, makes them easy targets for a fiery bolt from a
cumulonimbus cloud.
JUST BEYOND THE eastern range,
cumulonimbus build up.
William Rankin was passing over a monstrous
cumulonimbus cloud when, at nine miles up, the engine of his F-8 fighter jet quit with a grating, rasping jolt.
For example, the sky is filled with
cumulonimbus clouds towering to an anvil head near the top of the painting.
Blackburn against Leicester is a whacking great mass of
cumulonimbus with few obvious redeeming features, and you could easily be forgiven for finding something better to do than endure 90 minutes of huff and puff from Ewood P ark this afternoon.
Thus, altocumulus is a puffy cloud at high altitude and
cumulonimbus is a cumulus cloud that rains.
They depict 15 different types of clouds, from the frightening
cumulonimbus with a tornado whirling beneath to the choppy cirrus clouds that often precede a storm.
These are known as
cumulonimbus, or thunderstorm, clouds.
Reassuringly, he didn't appear to be taking our ride in the little Piper too seriously--that is, until I saw his reaction to the approaching
cumulonimbus clouds.
As we got closer to the towering
cumulonimbus with its distinct anvil resulting from the solar winds (because I'm sure the tops of these clouds were not in our atmosphere), I began to get a little nervous.
Cumulonimbus clouds, precursors to thunderstorms, were building to the south.
