Largest Clouds?
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Samuel, it all depends….
Google above and this is from the third thumbnail:
clouds (lesson 0112) – TQA explorerdata.allenai.org!1380 × 776Search by imageWhich is the largest cloud?
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Samuel, you made me think a bit too. I think it may have been C. E. M. Joad (philosopher and psychologist) of the BBC’s Brains Trust who put into the language ‘It depends what you mean by…’. In CAS, and perhaps most cloud literature, we tend to concentrate on cloud type. As you point out, stratus (Latin for layer) inherently has a wider spread.
But to me your question implies a search for a boundary condition; if you find one you can then start quantifying – spread, height, perhaps weight etc. But I would bet it is not that unusual that you could fly across the Atlantic yet see no water beneath the cloud. Further, satellite pictures such as those from Meteosat, Terra etc can show cloud covering whole swathes of the globe.
So I fear your question as it stands has no simple answer.
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