Select the name of the cloud formation pictured below. Post your scores in the comments below!
Quiz: Name that Cloud!

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I missed 1! And I call myself a storm chaser?! Lol it was the cumulus one but it was kind of a trick question. 😛 Loophole loophole! 🙂 Fun quiz though!
I thought 2 (layers of clouds) and 6 (there was rain, couldn’t see tops) were tricky…
Most of the time when there are rainSHOWERS (associated with CUMULOFORM clouds there are several layers—STRATOFORM, not so much—
Holy cow, only got 4 correct. Have a lot to learn.
Thanks Jen
Time to study!
4 out of 10..I kept second guessing myself..I would have had 6 maybe 7..I’m no pro meteorologist but I love weather dynamics and the science of it…I’m weather geek all the way!..love this new site!
thank you for joining and participating!
4/10 I’m better at handicapping horses.
Hmmm…guess I need to study my clouds a little better…
Man I blew that one. Only four correct
9/10. 🙂
which one did you not get? I thought 2 and 6 were tricky
sad’ I only got 4 right 🙁
What a fun quiz! I learned new cloud knowledge!
yeah! glad you liked it!
I think I need to learn my clouds!
Thanks Jen looks like I need more practice. Love your accent 😉
7 out of 10 not to bad… love the clouds.
Where’s my window seat? Great quiz! I’ve loved clouds since I was little.
I will never give up my window seat! Maybe for my kids. Or we take turns 😉
ha! Not bad!
Is 8 of 10 acceptable – I’m surprised there was no Mammata Cumulus.
8 out of ten is good. I thought #2 and #6 were tricky. Mammatus are a meteorologist’s fav!
8/10 How do I join the Cloud Appreciation Society?
10/10
9 out of 10. Felt good about still having my eye for cloud types after 57 years ago when I first started learning cloud types.
great job! It’s a useful skill to identify clouds – good conversation starter when there is a cool sky 😉
I live in Kansas and a lot of those clouds are in my sky. I didn’t do very good on your quiz, love it anyway.
You see many, but the “big one” you have so many of are not clouds—They are debris , sucked up by the low pressure—
Dang, only 7 correct. And I thought I knew my clouds! Live and learn.
Missed three should have gotten all. Fun quiz.
Darn. I missed a couple. And I fly through that stuff!
I missed 3 also but I’m an amateur so I feel good about it.
I was a USAF observer—sixteen weeks schooling, then three years active, and I’m still an ametuer—
What are the Latin Names, and what do they mean in English.
7 out of 10 ten looked similar but I said to myself No try this wrong lol
Oops! 6 correct. And I was a trained wx observer in the 1970s. Oh well! Great refresher.
a couple were a little tricky
WayneJ—We are kindred twenty or so years apart (early 50’s)—Wasn’t it fun !!!—I still look up first thing out of the house in the morning—Is there still such a thing as a Weather OBSERVER ???
Weather Camps paid off!
yes!
Totally guessing gave me fifty percent. Imagine what I could have done if I were even slightly concerned with the NAMES of cloud formations. How about fluffy, cottony, well-textured, bumpy-lookin’, windblown, stormy, take-cover-right now, and oh-HELL!
On the train to my first assignment out of observers school—-four of us —one of the four looked out of the window and proclaimed loudly “FEW CU”—I slid down in my seat—
Hhmmm, my 1st post above didn’t sound good…lol. Meant wrong. Oh well Jen(MaryAnn), what was your score? ;-)… .
I love meteorology and should have picked that as my field to earn a living instead of telecommunications.
Don’t second guess yourself—At 88 (and for a long time now) I think of many other things I might have done (including brain surgery)
Thanks Jen, Great quiz… I’m a pilot and should be able to name all 10 but I got 7 out of 10…. Glad I got Cumulonimbus right though… thats the cloud formation I avoid!!!!
Thanks again!!!
yes! that’s the most important one!
prapp—-I would say you are alive today because you knew not to fly through the lower two thirds of one—(or was it one third)—so long ago I forget —I always wondered how much attention you pilots paid to us observers, except do I have minimums to go, and of course they always insisted they did—of course, when you are in the air, you are on your own—I have been there , too—Thanks—EW—
Well, it doesn’t matter which third or any point. Going into Towering Cumulus or a maturing T-storm when it can be avoided is signing your own death warrant. Updrafts or downdrafts, hail and turbulence can be in any level. Microbursts and low level wind shear around a storm causes more problems because they can occur around the edges of the storm.
Tricky Jen(MaryAnn), tricky. I got 3 wrong ;-(… . I wonder how many if any you got right? Dave 😉
Not so good, need to keep my head in the clouds more i guess???
ha ha!
I better go read up on clouds
Look up Judy Collins
5 right. I have some studying to do!
9/10. I surprised myself! haha
This was fun and I learned a few things! Thank you.
glad you enjoyed it!
I blew it Big time. 3 right lol
HA!! Beat you with only 2 right.
I agree, had a blast 😊 need summer courses though 😃
Santana and Kallie 😻
Thanks Jen! Used to know them a lot better.
Back to my weather book!
plus learning new clouds is fun!
Great quiz, Jen. I only got six correct so I guess i need to study up. It’s hard when FIOS refuses to put TWC back on the air as I miss all of you and I don’t learn anything from the other weather staion. Si just do it the easy way and not watch the channel.
FIOS needs to bring back TWC!! So miss this channel!
I’ll second that!! I MISS the Weather Channel. DO NOT like the one we have now!!
sorry we are not back on FIOS yet, but thanks for following here!
I thought you wanted us to give them names, not identify them. 😂 I was fortunate to answer 5 correctly.
I agree with jlc33701. The quiz said to name the clouds, so I did, being careful to use equal numbers of masculine & feminine names.
I saw one the other day that I named EVANS (for me), because I was sure no one had ever seen it before—-Unfortunately, three minutes later it was GONE—
Don’t be embarassed, i only got two right. I was hoping to be like the Packers and go 0 for 10.
boy do I have a lot to learn
forgot most have not done this in years thanks I need to stud and refresh my memory
this was a great refresher!
Live and Learn. I need to do both.
Fun, Learned a lot.
How embassassing…missed three🙄
I was an Observer (USAF, 25250 on the U chart, 1952 )—I flunked—-
That was fun! Thanks Jen!!!
I’m should have gotten 10 correct since I am a meteorologist but we do make mistakes
not to be mean, but as a joke… really….meteorologists don’t lie LOL
You know the NWS has a cloud chart to refresh memories and look at
As an Observer (1952 or so, Georgia, Germany, France) I won’t look at it—-My ego couldn’t take it—EW—
I got the dark cirrostratus wrong. It’s a nebulosis
and I thought #2 had a few layers of clouds – it was tricky
HI Dewpoint. Yes, it was a rather tricky test of your (our) cloud knowledge. Many of the pictures seemed to be borderline between one or the other and were difficult to discern. I just wondered if you were a meteorologist or not since your pic looks very nice. Thanks Gator
SAME HERE I AM ALSO A METEOROLOGIST AND ONLY GOT 8!
(Something about this post doesn’t scream ‘Professional Meteorologist.’)
honneybunny, If you ever get old enough, I’ll marry you–(from an old worn out ex-observer)—
10 out of 10 but I’ve been a member of CAS since 2009 so I better represent! Member #18614
my Mom was Canadian and a huge sky watcher, also a weather tracker each day written on her calendar. I got 7 right and I think I can thank her for that.
10/10!! Great quiz!
I got seven. Good for a teenager right?
Jk I am a teacher at an elementary school.