cumuli

If you miss this fleeting apparition, perhaps you will enjoy the longer-lasting "velum," a stripe or patch of cloud sometimes found loitering around the base of sturdy cumuli.

Cirrus Concerns Peter Pesic 2011

Except that, instead of taking the obvious step of looking up, Stieglitz-like, to shoot his cumuli and stratuses, Finch has found them reflected in puddles in dirty Brooklyn streets.

Exhibit review of Spencer Finch's 'My Business, With the Cloud' at the Corcoran 2010

His knowledge of the elements, in their every aspect, appeared to be a profound one; Harriet's ears buzzed with facts about cumuli, low pressure and humidity.

Politics 101 2010

Around midday, white cumuli (?) arose over the mountain range (I was told that those are from the Atlantic).

Unthreaded #7 « Climate Audit 2007

It is a cloud that is in the shape of a funnel that forms from just usually the southwestern corner of a cumuli nimbus cloud.

CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2006 2006

The mountain thunderheads he loved, and the lens clouds, and the afternoon cumuli, still form over the Sierra.

Ansel Adams at 100 2002

Nos autem nouem per vallem processimus in silentio, et cum cordis ea deuotione, quam quisque sibi potuerit obtinere: et ecce in breui transacto spatio apparuerunt cumuli massarum auri et argenti, et preciosorum copia vasorum.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

The mountain thunderheads he loved, and the lens clouds, and the afternoon cumuli, still form over the Sierra.

Ansel Adams at 100 2002

On the horizon fine streaks of cirrhous clouds were succeeded by masses of cumuli.

Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 2003

Nos autem nouem per vallem processimus in silentio, et cum cordis ea deuotione, quam quisque sibi potuerit obtinere: et ecce in breui transacto spatio apparuerunt cumuli massarum auri et argenti, et preciosorum copia vasorum.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003