A field guide to cloud types: the WMO's 10 genera (cirrus, cumulus, stratus, cumulonimbus, etc.) plus the storm-spotter taxonomy (wall cloud, shelf cloud, mammatus, beaver tail). How to distinguish wall from shelf.
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