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.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Cirrus Concerns

• “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.”

  The Washington Post: Exhibit review of Spencer Finch's 'My Business, With the Cloud' at the Corcoran

• “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.”

  Fictionaut: Politics 101

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

  Unthreaded #7 « Climate Audit

• “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

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

  Ansel Adams at 100

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

  Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

• “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

• “Clouds -- light cumuli to north, east, and west; south clear.”

  The Land of Midian

• “Gregory: a very hard gale from west by south, clear sky with few cumuli; temperature 57°, dew-point 36°, — difference 21°.”

  Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle

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