Cloud Identification FlashcardsThere are 76 clouds here to practice your cloud identification skills.

There are 10 possible cloud names originally from Luke Howard’s 1803 naming scheme:

Then there are four more informal cloud ‘types’ used here:

Cloudwatching tutorial here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe09Qu9baac

Cumulus · Altocumulus · Cirrocumulus · Stratocumulus · CumulonimbusStratus · Altostratus · Cirrostratus · Nimbostratus · Cirrus

Lenticular · Mammatus · Pileus · Virga

** Answers begin on page 22 **

1 2

3 4

5 6

7 8

9 10

11 12

13 14

15 16

17 18

19 20

21 22

23 24

(snowing)

25 26

27 28

29 30

31 32

33 34

35 36

37 38

39 40

41 42

43 44

45 46

47 48

45 46

47 48

53 54

55 56

57 58

59 60

(snowing)

61 62

63 64

65 66

67 68

69 70

71 72

73 74

75 76

Answers

Cumulonimbus

Lenticular

Altocumulus

Cumulus

1 2

3 4

Cirrostratus

Cumulus

StratocumulusCumulonimbus

5 6

7 8

Stratus Cirrus

Lenticular Cumulonimbus

9 10

11 12

Cirrus Stratocumulus

Altocumulus Altostratus

Cumulus

13 14

15 16

Altocumulus Cumulonimbus

Cumulus

Lenticular

Cirrus

17 18

19 20

Cirrus Cirrocumulus

Cumulonimbus Mammatus

21 22

23 24

(snowing)

Cumulonimbus

Pileus

Nimbostratus

Altocumulus

25 26

27 28

Lenticular

Altocumulus

Cirrocumulus

Cumulus

29 30

31 32

Mammatus

Lenticular

Cirrus

Cirrostratus

33 34

35 36

Virga Cumulonimbus

Cirrocumulus Altocumulus

Cumulonimbus above37 38

39 40

Altostratus

Cirrus

CirrocumulusCumulonimbus

41 42

43 44

CumulonimbusLenticular

Mammatus

Stratocumulus

45 46

47 48

These are all cumulonimbus!

virga

49 50

51 52

Lenticular Altocumulus

Mammatus Cumulus

53 54

55 56

Stratocumulus Mammatus

Lenticular Stratus

57 58

59 60

Lenticular Cirrocumulus

Nimbostratus Cirrostratus

(snowing)

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61 62

63 64

Lenticular Cumulus

CirrostratusCumulonimbus

65 66

67 68

Cumulus

Mammatus

StratocumulusVirga

Cumulonimbus

Cirrus69 70

71 72

Nimbostratus

Cirrocumulus

Cirrus

Altocumulus

73 74

75 76