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 am a weather expert from the NH Seacoast,I specialize in remembering everything significant weather event since I was a kid. Clouds are not my specialty but I do know the important ones so I am very satisfied with my 8.
5/10 – really not bad for an extreme amateur!!
That was harder than I thought it would be!! Thanks for the challenge Jen!
I went 9 / 10. I missed the second one. I thought the cirrostratus was altostratus.
I got one right by mistake !!
‘Got one wrong and that one was “iffy”… I was right my first inclination but didn’t use it…
I got 2 wrong.
8 out of 10 and yes I love the window seat on the plane. Always taking pictures!!! Especially of the sunsets!
Try circumventing a thunderstorm at night—
3 wrong and I used to teach this stuff.
9 out of 10!
Not bad for learning this is school 35 years ago…lol
Yikes only 4 right😟
Sorry Jen, I only scored 5 🙁 , couldn’t remember Stephanie A. Humbuger layers but made me hungry thinking bout it, love you guys. Tim Williams Omaha Ne
she needs to add the cloud types to that hamburger-atmosphere analogy 😉
Only 5 out of 10. My last weather class was in the mid 80’s while in college.
Easy 10/10 I’ve been studying weather since I was young and it was really easy
Yeah, I only got 3 right! I suck!
Think I missed three, Skywarn trained too. Thanks Jen , miss you , got Direct TV
I didn’t realize that there are so many different types! Things have changed since my days in science class in school! There wasn’t as many different names back then!
Dang, some of the clouds I only knew the “layman’s terms” and of course I got them wrong while trying to guess their scientific names.
9/10 the cumulus were raining so I thought it was nimbostratus.
Misty—I was an observer (USAF) in the 50’s —Now “nimbo status ” sounds to me like some kind of a Carribean dance—
wow I need to study up on clouds again!
9/10 ain’t bad
Boy do I feel dumb……;)
Missed 3 out of 10. I will call that a victory since I have never had any “official” meteorological training.
Rerun the weather station contest, I gotta get one!
It’s been FIFTY years since I studied this, and I still got 5 right…should have had more. Guess I need a “mid-century” refresher!!
I got 9/10!!!!!
I need to learn a lot more…..4 out of 10 is terrible! OOOPS!
Ditto
Thought I knew clouds, but… 6/10 tells me to study more. Thanks for the quiz Jenn.
I should of gotten a 2 or 3 because I don’t know clouds that much the only ones that I kid the the thunderstorm ones and white fluffy clouds. Instead I got a 9
Wow. I got 7 out of 10, amazing !
I really bombed. I wish I could come up with a believable excuse, but ‘dumb’ is the unfortunate truth.
I loved learning about clouds back in grammar school 1964
I actually did better then I thought I might. Mostly guess work.
Fun! Send more quiz’s.
I like the quizzes too! You will see more of these.
I did alot worse then I thought I would but it was fun Love ya Jenn ! 😊
The one picture that you had the correct answer as cumulus…should have been cumulonimbus because of the shower falling out on the right side. Not obvious…but usually means some ice top on the cloud and thus cumulonumbus
yeah that #6 was a tricky one. think it could have gone either way
Pinky—I don’t want to go back and look, because I don’t want to lose my place in this interesting thread—If I remember correctly from my USAF observer training and experience of sixty five years ago, Cumulonimbus implies that beautiful “anvil head” that we seldom see from the ground because of all the other stuff in between—
Missed 4 out 9 no meteorologist here
Ditto
Gah 7/10 is not bad but not my best.
Bad way to score points with Jen. Did not do well.
Thanks for the quiz Jen, it was fun. I missed 2 out of 10.
10 out 10…woohoo
6/10 ain’t bad for a weather need in training lol
8/10 🙂
Hello Ms Jenn. Big fan of yours. Faithful weather channel watcher. Thank you for all the good work you do at the weather channel.
I had 5right the same first time and8 8right the second time I did. I used to farm. with my father when I was growing up.
did you learn when to get out of the field ? I did–in a 1929 Chevy—
7/10 aint bad….
Ok I got 6 correct… I guess I need to watch Jen more often, if that’s possible!
7 out of 10 lol
7/10 My bad.
Thanks Jen!!!
Not a very helpful learning tool. You have to make a choice in order to see the description, but if the description doesn’t match the picture, you can’t change your choice. At the end, you get a score (mine was 8 out of 10), and you can see which ones were wrong, but you can’t see why they were wrong or what would have been the right answer. Seems as if the only way to learn is to retake the quiz several times!
jb—Don’t feel bad—Cloud classification is only an attempt at useful reporting for forecasting and flying safety purposes—I was an observer (USAF) in the ’50’s and I still haven’t seen everything (I still look up and often marvel at the “artwork”)— Just a week ago I spent an hour watching a classic MAMMATUS formation such as I had never seen, but there was no wind or rain—-never heard of such a thing—
I got 4 right. All the bad weather ones of course since I’m a spotter😊