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While much of environmental news is grim these days, there’s a snowy silver lining to the nimbostratus clouds overhead: parched areas of the US that most need precipitation are getting it.

From The Guardian • Dec. 31, 2015

Although there are infinite shapes a cloud can take, the common classification system includes 10 types: cumulonimbus, cumulus, stratus, stratocumulus, nimbostratus, altostratus, altocumulus, cirrostratus, cirrocumulus and cirrus.

From Time Magazine Archive