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How to Spot Cloud Species & Varieties

Take the next step in becoming an expert cloudspotter. This course, which follows on from our course How to Spot the Ten Main Clouds, consists of 4 x 20-minute videos, each with quiz questions to help embed your learning. It will teach you how to recognise and identify all of the many species and varieties of cloud. You can think of these as subdivisions of the ten main types of cloud. Some relate to the particular cloud shapes, some to patterns in the elements of a cloud, among other characteristics.

Learning the species and varieties can help you understand the hidden movements of winds in our atmosphere and can, in some cases, help you forecast the weather in store.

On finishing this course and passing the cloudspotting quizzes you will be able to download your own Cloud Appreciation Society course completion certificate.

Course on top 10 Cloud Types

How to Spot the Ten Main Clouds

Your journey to become an expert cloudspotter begins here, by learning the ten main types of cloud. This course of 4 x 15-minute videos, each with quiz questions to help embed your learning, will teach you the distinctive characteristics of each of the ten main cloud types and how to distinguish between them. You will learn to look up at any sky and know which of the main cloud types are present. Looking up will never be the same again!

On finishing this course and passing the cloudspotting quizzes you will be able to download your own Cloud Appreciation Society course completion certificate.