Stratus clouds are seen as large gray sheets of cloud that lay very low in the sky for miles. These clouds build up when warm, moist air rides up slowly over a bank of cold air in the sky. These clouds are made up of tiny ice crystals because of the temperature where the clouds lay in the sky. Cirrus Cumulus Stratus Cirrus clouds often signal bad weather is coming. These clouds sit about 1,500 feet above us in the sky.
Stratus clouds build up when warm moist air rides up slowly over a bank of colder air.
Cirrus clouds are often called mare's tails because of the strong winds that are high in the air which blows the clouds into wispy curls just like the tail of a horse. Cumulus clouds are made when sunshine warms up bubbles of moist air and causes them to rise quickly above us. These clouds can streatch for hundreds of miles. Those tiny drops of H2O climb high till they take flight, And when they cool they start to pool into fluffs of grey and white. I keep one eye on the sky.