When I first started to learn about clouds, I found all the names confusing and hard to remember. So I developed my own system for classifying clouds. First you need to identify clouds by their shape. There are actually ten different types of clouds, but for now we'll concentrate on two basic shapes . These are Cumulus clouds and they are puffy.
Cumulus clouds can look like animals or people.
That part's pretty easy. The other thing you need to know is the height of the clouds. Clouds with vertical growth Cumulus Cumulonimbus Names of specific types of clouds are created by combining the name of the cloud's shape with the name of the cloud's height. Alto can also be used with cumulus and stratus to indicate altocumulus and altostratus which are middle altitude puffy clouds and middle altitude flat or layered clouds respectively. Nimbo or nimbus might be used with cumulus or stratus to indicate a cloud formation that is producing rain.