| 单词 | cumulus |
| 例句 | Monday morning was blue and white, and everything was blowing: cumulus clouds, bare branches, scraps of rubbish. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z It was as the inheritor of a view which covered a dozen miles of rollers, and hundreds of miW of cumulus. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Herds of puffy cumulus raced beneath the sun, imprinting the landscape with a shifting matrix of shadow and blinding light. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Now, with his head pointing upward, he found himself gazing at the ridge, as over the skyline came the silent, moving, red-tinged cumuli. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She paused outside the phone box to admire the huge cumulus clouds piled against a pale blue sky. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z But to the northwest, in the heart of the city, a cumulus cloud was in formation. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z You can also play tag with the cumulus clouds, climbing and diving around and through them. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z My hand was shaking itself out, until I looked up and saw the cumulus cloud I’d noticed earlier. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked at the sky and saw the white cumulus built like friendly piles of ice cream and high above were the thin feathers of the cirrus against the high September sky. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The thunderclouds which usually go with hot weather were there, high columns of cumulus with glaring edges, but there was not going to be any thunder. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z They sat side by side on a thick, white cumulus cloud the size of a small town. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z There were high cumulus clouds and enough cirrus above them so that the old man knew the breeze would last all night. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought of Kat, out there, somewhere in the city, under the growing cumulus cloud, on the trail of the strange man who sold us the ticket. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Phil asks as he gazes up at the few cumulus clouds in the sky. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Styles’s songs in particular seem hollowed out of any introspection; most of the ones on “Harry’s House” pass by like cumulus clouds. The Year Pop’s Men Dismantled Their Masculinity 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z The sun is shining obstinately; it’s another beautiful day, apart from a distant, unremarkable line of cumulus congestus, the type you’d see on many a summer’s day in the UK. Twister tales: stormchasing in Tornado Alley, Oklahoma 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Sundsten's sky vistas also display unusual weather phenomena, such as cumulus clouds attached to each other by what look like gauzy umbilical cords. Bodies sprout drawers, antlers, more at Seattle galleries 2011-09-08T20:38:04Z Pale retinal spots remind him of cumulus clouds, the retinal arteries of patients with high blood pressure of “jagged forks of lightning”. Life in the round 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Inside, the single room is filled to capacity with crinolines that hang from the ceiling like hundreds of cumulus clouds in shades of ivory, tan and blush. Betsey Johnson has never run with the fashion elite. That’s why she’s endured. 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z The distant sight of his supersized paintings of angels and gods couched on cumulus clouds are meant to pull you up the stairs, up to heaven, and they do. Seeing the Met’s Greatest Hits as Artists Painted Them 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z They changed costume with each course: silver origami masks, golden welding suits and, finally, white cumulus headdresses lit from within. Hermès doesn’t make it easy for you to buy its stuff. That’s why it sells so well. 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z “Clouds” employs wisps of cumulus and duck-shaped clouds to evoke failures of communication and moments of disconnection; “Kármán,” suggesting mortality and transcendence, uses the whole sky. The Screening Room: “People Are Becoming Clouds” 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z Out of the window, the white cumulus clouds looked higher and further away. It's All Right I Have a List That Helps to Make Everything Clear and It's Real Easy to Follow by Ian Beck - short story 2012-11-14T12:09:04Z But there are cumulus clouds of feathers and blossoming rosettes made of lace and gleaming sequin armor that romp across centuries and salons. The Met Walks a Fine Line on Lagerfeld: Judge the Clothes, Not the Man 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z Skiing several feet of fresh, untracked powder in Daisetsuzan National Park on Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan’s main islands, I feel like I’m bouncing around inside a cumulus cloud . The Japanese island where powder snow is almost guaranteed during the month of January 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Farther up, we passed a Yaupon holly that was pruned like cumulus clouds and a grove of grafted pecan trees strong enough to survive the sticky alkaline soil. Dallas is the most affordable go-to travel destination for 2015 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z For this, loudspeakers are hidden within each luminous cumulus. The L.A. Phil’s opening gala at Disney Hall finds Dudamel & Co. in full jazz swing 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z While we do see them in Blighty, here on the US Great Plains, a tower of cumulus can spawn a monster. Twister tales: stormchasing in Tornado Alley, Oklahoma 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Inland, the landscape hit all the familiar “Under the Tuscan Sun” touchstones: cypress trees pointing up at billowing cumulus clouds, vineyards rolling back to medieval hilltop towns. Seduced by Tuscany in Winter 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z "That rain made so many gloriously puffy cumulus clouds in the background," she said. TCM Fest: Andrews, Plummer reunite for 'Sound of Music's' 50th 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z In the evening, we would fly into the sunset, red and orange cumulus all around us, on and on we flew, with the colors toward the west. Memories of Mexico 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z It was ideal hiking weather: dry heat under a brilliant blue sky that was decorated with puffy, white cumulus clouds. Overnighter: In Colorado, Switchbacks and ‘The Shining’ 2012-10-19T17:12:06Z Peering out of the airplane window, I wondered: Did the pilot take a wrong turn at the last cumulus cloud? The U.S. Virgin Islands clean up for the holidays 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z As he spoke, a full moon rose behind us and roseate spoonbills sailed in V-formation across pink cumulus clouds fading into periwinkle to the west. Tears for the Magnificent and Shrinking Everglades, a ‘River of Grass’ 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z He thanks his grandmother and sinks at the loss of his father with mournful rasp, deepened even further by gentle chin-to-sternum plucking and the cumulus vocals of Little Dragon’s Yukimi Nagano. Big Boi’s Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors Is Visionary Hip-Hop 2012-12-12T18:30:17Z The foot mirrors are shaped like cumulus clouds. The Optimized Anti-Style of Allbirds Shoes 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z At sunset the cumulus clouds rose above us like the mountain ranges we had missed in the North. My Return to Nepal, in Memoriam 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Ms. Mori’s creations look like chimerical species — hybrids of barnacles and cumulus clouds, a baobab and a weeping willow, a waterlily and fiddlehead ferns, sea urchin spines and a swarm of starlings. Art Rooted in Nature Blooms at TEFAF 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Some pieces call to mind puffy cumulus clouds floating in the sky, except each is spotted and has sprouted four legs. Molding a ‘Little Universe of Life Forms’ as Functional Vessels 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z Beyond, verdant hills rose to a clear sky, punctuated here and there with puffy cumuli. On a Trip to St. Croix, Room for Man and Nature 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z As that sinister cumulus rose above an oval-shaped reservoir, it collapsed, sending red-hot embers down the steep slopes toward Greenville in a storm of torched trees and exploding shrubs. Looking for home in an overheating world: If emissions continue, will we all be migrants someday? 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z They are gigantic green cumulus clouds with roots like rhinoceroses. 8 L.A. trees to love that aren't jacarandas 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Through a lot of trial and error, Hsieh has learned to hydrate, aerate, knead, roll out, rest and steam his bao until they attain a soft cumulus quality. At Bao Bei, the son of a chef embraces his heritage, pillowy pork buns 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z Tornadoes — or rotating funnels of air connected to the Earth and either a cumulonimbus or the base of a cumulus cloud — are dangerous because of their immense power, which Houser barely escaped. We can't predict tornadoes with high accuracy. Scientists are trying to change that 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z Landspouts are similar to tornadoes, but the circulation from the funnel starts at ground level and is pulled up into towering cumulus clouds, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. A wild weather day in California: The Fujiwhara effect, a bomb cyclone and a landspout warning 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z “So I leaned close, put on my glasses, and I saw those 10,000-foot cumulus clouds shrunken and upside down inside each one,” he said. How to see the kaleidoscopic Echo Park home that's drawing visitors from around the world 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z The life span of a cloud, in particular the type of cumulus clouds most likely to produce rain, is rarely more than a couple of hours, atmospheric scientists say. Cloud Wars: Mideast Rivalries Rise Along a New Front 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z This process is the driving power behind thunderheads, those great cumulus clouds that rise as much as 20.0 km into the stratosphere. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z Fledgling stars shining out from deep within cumulus clouds of interstellar dust. Webb Telescope Raises Curtain on a New, Ancient Universe 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z “The common ones that you’re going to see are cumulus. Those are the really puffy ones, and they tend to be really low,” Pistone said. What would it feel like to touch a cloud? 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z Although there will be a little monsoonal moisture, and cumulus clouds may form over the mountains, but no thunderstorms are anticipated, forecasters said. 'Dangerous' heat wave forecast for Southern California's Labor Day weekend 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z He was a master at rendering sweeping panoramic vistas of Bucks County’s hills, gently rolling under cumulus cloud-filled skies that create dramatic patterns of light and shadow. $35M initiative seeks to preserve New Hope Art Colony 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z Of particular concern are cumulus clouds and anvil clouds, which are highly charged. The Air Force weather team that keeps canceling your rocket launches 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z It’s not just that you can sometimes see the flames and watch the towering cumulus clouds they create, hanging like anvils over the ridges and darkening the landscape. Opinion | Can You Still #Resist When Your State’s on Fire? 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Next day, 27 April, powerful winds kicked up, cumulus clouds billowed on the horizon, and rain poured down in a deluge. Chernobyl’s cover-up is a warning for our nuclear future | Kate Brown 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z As baby cumulus clouds recently bubbled into calm heavens, residents of Armour, population 880, recalled how people trailed outside after the departing storm clouds to cut neighbors’ fallen limbs, haul debris and patch roofs. Residents in Armour recall 2017 storm 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z Today’s weather seems like it will cooperate for a flight; there’s an 80 percent chance that conditions will be favorable for launch, with the possibility of some rain and cumulus clouds. Watch SpaceX launch its second used Falcon 9 rocket for NASA this afternoon 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z Tufts of cumulus, floodlit from below, had been painted on the ceiling above the plane. Selling Airborne Opulence to the Upper Upper Upper Class 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Seven counties are in the program, which deploys aircraft into towering cumulus clouds to spray silver iodide. North Dakota suffers repercussions of drought conditions 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z There’s only a 40 percent chance that conditions will be favorable for launch, with a concern of anvil and cumulus clouds forming near Cape Canaveral. Watch SpaceX launch its third Falcon 9 rocket in less than two weeks 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z From there, looking south, we see an electric cityscape of high-rises and cumulus clouds above the late-morning traffic. From a muddy lane to muddled lanes of traffic 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z It is also revealed by the towering cumulus clouds that loom overhead, laden with moisture, suggesting that they might easily morph into thunderstorm mode at any time. An unlucky number for D.C.: 13 consecutive days of 90-degree temperatures 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z With their light frames and relatively large wings, the frigatebirds enter their theme park by swooping beneath a fluffy cumulus cloud about 100 feet above the water’s surface. A Roller Coaster in the Sky for Frigatebirds 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z A cumulus, for example, might just be a cumulus; or it might be a cumulus fractus, if its edges are tattered; or a cumulus pileus, if a smaller cloud appears over it like a hood. The Amateur Cloud Society That (Sort Of) Rattled the Scientific Community 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Closed-cell clouds look similar to a capped honeycomb from above, with opaque cumulus clouds at the center of the cells. Satellite Eye on Earth: February 2016 - in pictures 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z NASA's Aqua satellite spots cloud streets, long parallel bands of cumulus clouds, above the western Pacific Ocean's Sea of Okhotsk. Week's Best Space Pictures: Dying Star Shoots Gleaming Jets 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z It’s like stepping into a sun-filled cumulus cloud, a dazzling, cottony glow all about your person and nothing but air beneath your feet. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain – extract 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z The sky was so large it held three different weather patterns at once: bright blue sunshine, puffy white cumulus, and dark storm clouds that would eventually hit us with rain, wind and hail. Scenic mountain is centerpiece of wilderness proposal 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z Harris draws particular attention to the association between minds and clouds, from the cumulus shape of the cartoon thought bubble to the early Christian belief that Adam’s mind was made from a pound of clouds. Talk About the Weather 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z The camera at this ground is very curiously placed, somewhere up amongst the cumulus and nimbus, facing down at a sheer, acute angle. Poland v Republic of Ireland: Euro 2016 qualifier –as it happened 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z NASA's Aqua satellite spots cloud streets, long parallel bands of cumulus clouds, above the western Pacific Ocean's Sea of Okhotsk. Week's Best Space Pictures: Dying Star Shoots Gleaming Jets 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z Well, researchers say that the type of clouds produced from sea gas and plankton particles, especially in the Southern Ocean, are not your common or garden cumulus. Could the smell of the sea help cool a warming planet? - BBC News 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Black scathing cumuli of mosquitoes formed a needling vapor in the boat. The Making of a President 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z In 1803, the British pharmacist Luke Howard suggested that clouds be described as cirrus, stratus, cumulus, and nimbus—the Latin words for “curl,” “layer,” “mass,” and “rain.” Talk About the Weather 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z The camera at this ground is very curiously placed, somewhere up amongst the cumulus and nimbus, facing down at a sheer, acute angle. Poland v Republic of Ireland: Euro 2016 qualifier –as it happened 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z NASA's Aqua satellite spots cloud streets, long parallel bands of cumulus clouds, above the western Pacific Ocean's Sea of Okhotsk. Week's Best Space Pictures: Dying Star Shoots Gleaming Jets 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z In the distance, a range of cumulus clouds was lit orange by the sun. Scientists fly Kansas sky to study ferocious storms 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z Meteorologically speaking, then, big IT users can look forward to blue skies containing cheap, fluffy cumulus clouds. The cheap, convenient cloud 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z If a woman could be cloaked in cumulus clouds, she might look something like this model who practically floated down the runway barely tethered to the ground. Comme Des Garcons and Undercover break all the rules, dazzle the eye at Paris Fashion Week 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z The next step for cumulus is to develop a 1mwh per month battery and from there to move into commercial production from a UK manufacturing facility in Sheffield. It's Never Too Soon To Go International - Cumulus Energy's US/UK Strategy 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z Okay, maybe Castro’s gnocchi can’t compare to the cumulus clouds over at Rose’s Luxury. Rosemarino d’Italia in Alexandria: The next iteration of Italian American cooking? 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z With the exception of a heavy band of cumulus clouds some forty miles north and west of Howland, the Coast Guard had reported clear conditions in the area. Aircraft Fragment Likely Not Earhart's, Says Investigator 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z An unruly thatch of blond fluff perched atop Boris Johnson’s head like a yellow wisp of cumulus. Boris Johnson: ‘Do you want me to be photographed in my Bullingdon Club uniform? With a spliff? Now you’re talking’ 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z The majority of the clouds on display are easily recognizable varieties: featherlike cirrus clouds and big, photogenic cumulus clouds. Out of thin air: is this the world's newest type of cloud? 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Sunny with highs in the mid 80s and a few puffy cumulus. New York Today: Central Park, Untamed 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z Big fluffy clouds moved quickly overhead, as the tennis players on court wrestled with the swirling breezes pushing the cumulus. Andy Murray keeps British hopes, and Henman Hill, alive at Wimbledon 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z The Science study unravels a different cloud type—the cumulus—which is not represented in climate models. How Does Air Pollution Affect Clouds? 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Forecasters use satellite images to track whether cumulus clouds are forming, which indicates another round of severe weather. Florida Deluge Was All-Time Record 2014-05-02T14:19:00Z The vox populi of the Pacific Northwest — hopped up on caffeine and cumulus clouds — still grumbles about the bad calls in the Seahawks’ 21-10 loss to the Steelers in Super Bowl 40. Chad: Super Bowl 2014: The Couch Slouch viewing guide 2014-01-26T19:55:51Z A small cumulus cloud entered the picture Tuesday at the only event in the scientific world that boasts a big enough attendance to almost fill a small stadium for professional baseball. Is Mindfulness Good for Everything? Maybe Not for Learning to Ride a Bike 2013-11-14T16:45:07.197Z Translation: there were scattered clouds beginning at about 16,500 feet above sea level, and a rapidly-rising towering cumulus cloud reaching to 24,000 feet right in front of them. The Inside Story of a Deadly Air Force Crash 2013-10-30T11:05:27Z Adding cumulus clouds into climate models is a "long way off," he said. How Does Air Pollution Affect Clouds? 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Fluffy cumulus clouds tend to sit at just one mile from the ground. The mysterious summer night clouds 2013-06-28T15:55:03Z “I always loved watching the sky, especially those friendly puffy cumulus clouds on a warm spring day and imagining what animal or face they looked like.” Becoming a meteorologist: A job where you predict the future 2013-02-15T15:29:39Z "I saw them right in front of me as they were swallowed up by a huge cumulus cloud," pilot Enrique Rada told Turin daily La Stampa in an interview published on Monday. Missoni family hold hope missing fashion boss still alive 2013-01-07T12:05:55Z Varieties like puffy, cottony cumulus clouds; wavy stratocumulus clouds; and tall, thundering cumulonimbus clouds behave differently as well. Mobile Lab Set to Study Clouds' Influence on Weather and Climate 2012-10-01T18:15:00.447Z The four-door hatchback, however, is generating cumulus clouds of data every second. Automakers, Tech Companies Mining Electric Car Big Data To Plot Industry's Future 2012-06-18T13:48:31Z Stratocumulus is a continuous layer of cumulus that looks like a "tray of bread rolls". How can you talk interestingly about the weather? 2012-06-06T08:45:05Z These heaped clouds, known as cumulus, are a guarantee of a normal atmosphere and continued fair weather. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z The cloud effects were very striking; the storms seemed to gather round Makalu, and first one peak and then the other would appear out of the great white cumulus clouds whose shapes changed every minute. Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 2012-04-12T02:00:28.417Z Billowy masses of white cumulus clouds sailed rapidly over the deep blue sky. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z Westwards, a clump of firtrees silhouetted against a bank of blue cumulus cloud; The June afterglow like a sea behind. The Mountainy Singer 2012-02-20T03:00:20.273Z When the cirrus and cumulus are combined, in well-defined roundish masses, what is familiarly described as a “mackerel sky” is beautifully presented. Meteorology or Weather Explained 2012-02-20T03:00:18.847Z Within a few minutes after the bottoms of cumulus clouds turn from black to gray, letting down visible trailing showers. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z Clouds had been rising in banks, masses of cumuli that passed fitfully across the moon. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z The cirri disappeared by degrees, and the cumuli towered up on the horizon in colossal masses. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-02T03:00:25.873Z The sky was overcast with grey and leaden cumulus drifting before the restless wind, and night was coming on a good hour before its time. The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure 2011-12-13T03:00:23.197Z There is a peculiarly warm sensation in the centre of a cumulus cloud, especially when it is not dense. Meteorology or Weather Explained 2012-02-20T03:00:18.847Z These piled masses of vapor are cumulus clouds, and if they don’t overdo the matter are a sign of fair weather. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z Huge masses of cumulus, balloon-like, thrust distended cheeks to the morning kiss of the sun; but these were well down to the west. A Trooper Galahad 2011-10-12T02:00:53.977Z The sun was now just going down—had gone down, indeed, behind a bank of golden-edged cumuli—and was flooding earth, sea, and sky with crimson. A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest 2011-10-12T02:00:51.367Z It is a lovely day, with large white cumulus clouds rolling lazily over a brilliant blue sky. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z The first forms a cloud, called, from being a layer, stratus; the second forms a cloud, called, from its heap appearance, cumulus. Meteorology or Weather Explained 2012-02-20T03:00:18.847Z The large piles of cumulus clouds are called thunderheads for the very reason that they almost always precede a thunderstorm. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z Now we are approaching a new formation of clouds, lovely towering masses of cumulus, pearl-white in the light of the moon. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z And this state of things increased, the sky being meanwhile thickly covered over with dark rolling cumulus, drifting onwards on the wings of a southern breeze. In the Land of the Great Snow Bear A Tale of Love and Heroism 2011-08-31T02:01:29.827Z In the east a full round moon is struggling through a sea of cumulus clouds. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z We left the city behind, with 152 a huge cumulus cloud resting over it, and the evening light on all. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z And so it comes about that the person who talks about storm centers and areas of high pressure and cumulus clouds is no longer regarded as slightly unhinged. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z Towering cumulus clouds typically appear on showery days. In pictures 2011-07-30T23:47:30Z The "breathtaking" images are a "fine example of cumulus mediocris" clouds, showing where warm air was rising with showers possible later, according to the weatherman. Earth from the air 2011-07-12T12:45:52Z It had been a sultry, cloudy day, but the banks of cumulus looked very unsettled, rolling and tossing about for no apparent reason, for the wind was almost nil. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z As the sun heats the ground and air during the morning, small cumulus clouds appear in the sky. Red sky at night 2011-07-13T01:13:01Z In summer local evaporation may be so long-continued or so vigorous that the cumulus clouds cannot hold all their moisture content when cooled. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z Day succeeds day under the same limpid blue sky fringed at the horizon with a few tufts of woolly cumuli. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z The gaps in-between in this classic summer set-up show where air is subsiding between the cumulus. Earth from the air 2011-07-12T12:45:52Z Already the heavy cumulus clouds were curdling over the distant Drakensberg, and raising their white and shining masses over the near Xomlenzi range. The White Hecatomb And other Stories 2011-06-15T02:00:22.103Z When the air rises powerfully to great heights, cumulus is built up in mountainous masses and may become cumulo-nimbus, the thundercloud. The Mentor: The Weather Serial Number 110; 1 July, 1916 2011-06-09T02:00:19.213Z If the cumulus clouds of the summer’s afternoon do not decrease in size as evening approaches showers may be looked for during the night. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z It is of interest to note the appearance of the sky when cumulus clouds are present. Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications 2011-06-02T02:00:25.247Z Howard classified the clouds as we do to-day, according to their appearance, into three principal types, viz. stratus, cumulus, and cirrus, which represented also low, middle, and high clouds. Sounding the Ocean of Air 2011-05-31T02:00:35.603Z Through the autumn, and early winter, clear days are practically cloudless; and cloud-masses, cirrus, not cumulus, herald and follow storms; but with February, the clear-weather summer clouds return. A Northern Countryside 2011-04-27T02:00:22.523Z “Why not this very night?” he asked himself, stepping nervously out from the laurustinus, and glaring at the moon, whose thin crescent flickered feebly through cumulus clouds. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z If cumulus clouds heap up to leeward, that is, to the north, or northwest on a south or southwest wind a heavy storm is sure to follow. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z A cumulus cloud in the sky may be a hundred thousand times brighter than the deepest shadow. Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications 2011-06-02T02:00:25.247Z The temperature falls at the adiabatic rate in unsaturated air till the base of the cumulus cloud is reached. Sounding the Ocean of Air 2011-05-31T02:00:35.603Z The canopy of bright blue, usually smiling over the Chiltern Hills, was obscured by black cumulus clouds, that hung in motionless masses—completely shrouding the firmament. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z Heavy cumuli drifting sluggishly athwart the sky, now and then drew curtain-like over her disk, making the earth dark as Erebus. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z Clear winter days several times a season show a brilliant blue sky filling with great cumulus clouds of dark blue, blurred at the top and gray at the base. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z At the top of this haze cumulus clouds are commonly seen to be poking out like nearly submerged icebergs. Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications 2011-06-02T02:00:25.247Z The most conspicuous of the clouds formed by rising currents is the cumulus, or rounded summer cloud, which has been aptly termed "the visible capital of an invisible column of air." Sounding the Ocean of Air 2011-05-31T02:00:35.603Z At dusk the wind freshened, the sail was reefed down for the night under a sky all nimbus near the horizon, the zenith full of drab-colored cumulus moving sullenly northeast. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z The afternoon was one of the loveliest; not a cloud in the azure sky save some low-lying fleecy cumuli, snow-white but rose-tinted, towards which the sun seemed hastening as to a couch of repose. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z The true cumulus shows a sharp outline all the way round. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z But she is not visible, obscured by a bank of thick cumulus clouds, that have rolled up from the Californian Gulf—portent of an approaching rain-storm. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z Stratus is the sheet of low-lying cloud which forms at night, and commonly rests on the earth; cumulus is the heaped-up cloud of the day-time; and cirrus is the curl cloud of the high atmosphere. Sounding the Ocean of Air 2011-05-31T02:00:35.603Z He sat huddled, staring at the moon risen well above the nimbus and for the moment riding clear even of the scattered cumulus. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z The memory of those bold meretricious phrases, those smiling innuendoes, dissipated or darkened them, as cumuli darken the sun. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z All the rest is torn stratus and cumulus, which needs to condense a little further before it becomes nimbus. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z A few cumulus clouds were piled in fantastic groups toward the west, as I stopped about two miles out, and gazed slowly around me. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z The mean height of the cumulus is about a mile, but the tops of the cumulo-nimbus, or thunder-shower cloud, sometimes penetrate into the cirrus level. Sounding the Ocean of Air 2011-05-31T02:00:35.603Z This ascending column of atmosphere, when it reaches a certain point, is condensed into cumuli of beautiful, fleecy clouds, often piled up in the most fantastic and gorgeous shapes. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z Well, what happened is you've flown through a stand of towering cumulus, or TCu -- a roiling, convective skyscraper of a cloud, a thunderstorm in the making -- out there in the night. Out there in the night ... 2010-12-03T01:29:00Z The puffy cumulus clouds show a lot of white. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z It had been a hot day, and by early evening a forest of tightly packed cumulus towers stretched across eastern New England. With turbulence, you just never know 2010-07-22T16:30:00Z Below the cumulus level the winds follow the normal cyclonic and anti-cyclonic circulation. Sounding the Ocean of Air 2011-05-31T02:00:35.603Z The sun went down behind banks, or rather cumuli of pink and lilac clouds. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z For example those burbling, cotton-ball cumulus clouds -- particularly the anvil-topped variety that occur in conjunction with thunderstorms -- are almost always a lumpy encounter. Turbulence: Things that go bump in the plane 2010-07-20T21:40:00Z The summer cumulus clouds increase in size as the afternoon proceeds. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z Dark cumulus and dark crag vied in savagery, while at other places white snows and white clouds held equal rivalry. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. The cumulus clouds were traversed three-quarters of a mile from the earth, and above them the air was found to be very dry. Sounding the Ocean of Air 2011-05-31T02:00:35.603Z A great cumulus cloud piled up like a Himalayan peak in the west beyond my mouse-gray dwelling. The Idyl of Twin Fires The sun was shining through light cumulus clouds. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 A snowy aggregation of cumulus sustained the empyrean upon the volume of its mighty curve and swell. Sinister Street, vol. 1 The cumuli around and near the sun himself could not be gazed upon, until, as the day declined, they gradually lost their effulgence and became tolerable to the eyes. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. The plane of increased temperature usually determines the height of the tops of cumulus and strato-cumulus clouds. Sounding the Ocean of Air 2011-05-31T02:00:35.603Z The cumulus is represented in the general plate with sufficient accuracy to show its peculiar character. The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes I could see the cumulus clouds sailing through the blue atmosphere, and thought if only we were there, only had land under us, then all our troubles would sink into oblivion. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 That evening when, after tea, Jenny leaned against the stone hedge under a sunset of rosy cumulus, Trewhella came through the garden and faced her. Carnival Magnificent white cumuli appeared about noon above the Yosemite region,—floating fountains refreshing the glorious wilderness,—sky mountains in whose pearly hills and dales the streams take their rise,—blessing with cooling shadows and rain. My First Summer in the Sierra Now his ship looked like a fat, fleecy cumulus. Keep Your Shape The cumulus is the principal cloud of the tropics, and is not often seen with us except in summer, or when our weather is tropical in character. The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes Afterward, he left the girl, and went up on deck, where he stood staring through long minutes toward the fleecy masses of cumulus clouds that lay along the New Jersey horizon. When the Cock Crows The true cumulus has clear superior and inferior limits. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" Glorious pearly cumuli tinted with purple of ineffable fineness of tone. My First Summer in the Sierra The sky was a deep blue—usually described as an Italian sky—broken only by a few fleecy, cumulus clouds, which served to bring out more clearly the rich colour of the background. A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land I have said that there was a decided tendency to cirrus without cumulus, in mid-winter, and cumulus without cirro-stratus or stratus, in midsummer, and during the intermediate time an intermediate tendency. The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes Vast irregular masses of white and purple cumulus drifted rapidly over the sky. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers Diurnal cumulus clouds, often absent because of the excessive dryness of the air, are replaced by clouds of blowing dust and sand. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" Pearl cumuli over the higher mountains—clouds, not with a silver lining, but all silver. My First Summer in the Sierra It is a cumulus, cirrus, stratus, or what not. The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors An easterly wind lifts and turns them to dark, cumulus clouds, settled on the frosty crown, like an old man’s winter cap; the physiognomical expression is that of anger. The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes The cumulus often attains its greatest size early in the afternoon, when the heat of the day is most felt. The Rain Cloud or, An Account of the Nature, Properties, Dangers and Uses of Rain in Various Parts of the World It is a horizontal sheet, above which the cirrus spreads, while the cumulus enters it laterally and from beneath. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" About noon, as usual, big bossy cumuli began to grow above the forest, and the rainstorm pouring from them is the most imposing I have yet seen. My First Summer in the Sierra The moon emerged from behind a cloud, touching with a delicate sepia some fleecy edge of cumuli. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography The tendency to blow increases with the tendency to trade and cumulus condensation, and continues till toward night, when it gradually dies away, unless there be a storm approaching. The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes The formation of large cumuli to leeward, in a strong wind, indicates the approach of a calm with rain. The Rain Cloud or, An Account of the Nature, Properties, Dangers and Uses of Rain in Various Parts of the World In the aurora borealis the cumulus clouds appeared of a darker color, almost the gray of wool. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I Heard a few peals of thunder from the upper Sierra, and saw firm white bossy cumuli rising back of the pines. My First Summer in the Sierra And be it remembered that all these faults and deficiencies are to be found in their drawing merely of the separate masses of the solid cumulus, the easiest drawn of all clouds. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) They are distinct, more or less disconnected, irregular, with every form between those of the easterly scud, cumulus, and stratus, according to the season. The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes When a cumulus increases rapidly a cumulo-stratus frequently forms around its summit, resting thereon as on a mountain, while the former cloud continues to be seen, in some degree, through it. The Rain Cloud or, An Account of the Nature, Properties, Dangers and Uses of Rain in Various Parts of the World There were cumulus clouds of varying closeness all the time. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I Clouds only .05,—mostly white and pink cumuli over the Hoffman spur towards evening,—frosty morning. My First Summer in the Sierra The clouds of Salvator and Poussin.She scarcely ever lets an hour pass without some manifestation of finer forms, sometimes approaching the upper cirri, sometimes the lower cumulus. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) These westerly and north-westerly winds are very light, and like the gentle easterly breeze which sets toward the cumulus clouds and summer showers. The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes The cumulo-stratus speedily becomes denser and spreads, while the upper part of the cumulus extends likewise, and passes into it, the base continuing as it p. 92was. The Rain Cloud or, An Account of the Nature, Properties, Dangers and Uses of Rain in Various Parts of the World They were light cumuli, or cirro-cumuli, shifting into a brightly shining mackerel sky. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I Great cumulus clouds lazily, ponderously, glided across the sky, prototypes of nomadic wandering. Sunlight Patch There was a little fair weather cumulus cloud scattered here and there, but nothing that would interfere with visibility. Smugglers' Reef Where they do exist, they do not always blow, but are wanting during the hottest days; and careful observers have identified their appearance with the formation of cumuli, or other condensation, upon the hills inland. The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes The cumulo-stratus, when well formed and seen singly, and in profile, is quite as beautiful an object as the cumulus. The Rain Cloud or, An Account of the Nature, Properties, Dangers and Uses of Rain in Various Parts of the World It was a heavy cumulus cloud, but I do not know from what direction it came. Wild Life on the Rockies This explanation was liable to all the objections urged against the "cumulus theory" on the one hand, and the "trade-wind theory" on the other. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition I see the great mass of white cumuli and against them the dark cedars, the straggling foot-path and steep cliffs. Outdoor Sketching Four Talks Given before the Art Institute of Chicago; The Scammon Lectures, 1914 Our hottest days are comparatively still days; and I have seen the cumulus sailing gently to the east, horizontally, when the air was at 98°. The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes The finest examples occur between the first appearance of the fleecy cumuli and the commencement of rain, while the lower atmosphere is comparatively dry, and during the approach of thunder storms. The Rain Cloud or, An Account of the Nature, Properties, Dangers and Uses of Rain in Various Parts of the World Eyes the size of Navy dirigibles, with pupils of deep cerulean blue, floating against the backdrop of the gray cumulus. Get Out of Our Skies! Sullen, dull, he watched the sunset, watched the bellying cumulus clouds mimic the Grand Cañon. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life A horizontal sheet of cloud, with cirrus above and cumulus beneath; it is better known as the nimbus or rain-cloud. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. I have watched the cumuli at such periods when they filled the air, and can assert that they never rise. The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes If the cumulus be the only cloud at first visible, its upper part is seen to become tufted with cirri. The Rain Cloud or, An Account of the Nature, Properties, Dangers and Uses of Rain in Various Parts of the World The moon was now well up, but hidden by a mass of cumulus cloud. As We Sweep Through The Deep You could see the sun like a radiant jewel packed in the cotton cumulus of clouds. This Crowded Earth She was uplifted by the bold contrast of cumulus clouds and the radiant blue sky. The Job An American Novel This form has none of the characteristics of the cumulus, and does not appear in the same stratum. The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes At other times, the cirro-stratus is first formed above the cumulus, and their sudden union is attended with the production of cirri and rain. The Rain Cloud or, An Account of the Nature, Properties, Dangers and Uses of Rain in Various Parts of the World The moon, however, had already risen, or rather had been all the while above the horizon, but hidden by a thick band of cumulus clouds that hung over the west. The Tiger Hunter The desert sky was cloudy and starless, and powerful searchlights probed the thick cumulus. The Delegate from Venus He received the acknowledgment and brought his machine around to face the lordly bulk of the cumulus. Tam o' the Scoots Of the different forms of cirrus and cirro-stratus, which appear during the day, and indicate approaching storms, or of cumulus indicative of showers, it is difficult to give an intelligible description without very many illustrations. The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes White clouds now appear in the east, and gather into cumuli, with an increasing blackness along their lower portions. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America We had little blue sky, but the clouds were again grand and varied — cirrus, stratus, cumulus, and nimbus, we had them all. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 In the direction of Mount Overlook he could see cumulus clouds and the dark turbulence which meant strong updraft. Mercenary It was a detached and imperial cumulus, a great frothy pyramid that sailed in majestic splendor. Tam o' the Scoots So the sun is reflected, in beautiful colors sometimes, from the cumulus clouds which have passed over to the east. The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes And now his father’s letter was the cumulus of his misfortunes. St. Winifred's, or The World of School A few distant cumuli sailed near the horizon, but the zenith and a vast angular space all round it were absolutely free from cloud. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 For if you poked and poked, you raised white cumulus clouds of ash, and you were left at last with a few darkening and sulphurous embers. The Lost Girl There were no changes of weather in them, no rain clouds or fair-weather clouds, nothing but various shapes of the cumulus or cirrus, introduced for the sake of light on the deep blue sky. Lectures on Architecture and Painting Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853 The nimbus, therefore, is not a distinct cloud, but an appearance which the cumulus, stratus, or cirro-stratus has in a stormy or showery state, and does not deserve a distinct name. The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes The moon’s disc was clear and well defined, whiter from contrast with the dark cumuli: and her beam frosted the prairie till the grass looked hoar. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse Round the horizon it was of steely brilliancy, while reddish cumuli and cirri floated southwards. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 But there are cumulus clouds in the sky; and these, ever and anon drifting over the moon’s disc, compel him to pull up till they pass. The Death Shot A Story Retold Then comes the cumulus, the big round cloud, that looks like masses of fluffy cotton wool piled on top of each other. The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men The nimbus, another cloud described by him, is not distinct from the cumulus or stratus. The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes The leaden layer broke up into black cumulus clouds, that slowly careered across the canopy of the sky. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse The cumuli resembled mountains in shape, and their peaked summits shone as white as Alpine snows. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Dense cumulus clouds have formed, the upper surfaces of which have caught all the sun's heat, intensifying the unstable equilibrium of the air. Plotting in Pirate Seas Our memory of these is of beautiful sheets of water, surrounded by the green of mid-June, and over-arched by the blue sky and the fleecy cumuli of a perfect summer day. In and Around Berlin The engraving on the preceding page, shows a phase of these fair-weather summer cumuli. The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes Above us the sky is blue and bright, bluer than the sky of the Mediterranean, and the clouds from the silky cirrus mare's-tails to the fantastic and heavy cumulus are always objects of beauty. A Negro Explorer at the North Pole Calm spaces of blue, in which floated quietly scraps of cumuli, were behind us, but in front of us was a horizon of portentous darkness. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 There were explosions, fireballs in the air and rising cumulus clouds of varicolored smoke and dust. The Cosmic Computer This coign of safety billowed outward from the pattern towards the building like an arm of cumulus cloud and the top of it rose like a column to a height above my range. Highways in Hiding It was probably called cumulus because its small masses are distinct, as are those of the ordinary cumulus. The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes Mountain after mountain stretched away to north, south, east, and west, blue or green, bright or dark, as distance or the shadows of the beautiful cumulus clouds severally affected them. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Unlike that day, the weather was sunny and mild; big cumulus clouds moved languidly through the sky, as if it were midsummer instead of late October. The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story Then of the 'Cloud Chariot,' or cumulus,—not to be drawn, not to be explained; even Turner attempted not that. Art in England Notes and Studies One lurid gleam of white cumulus in upper lead-blue sky, seen for half a minute through the sulphurous chimney-pot vomit of blackguardly cloud beneath, where its rags were thinnest. The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century Two Lectures delivered at the London Institution February 4th and 11th, 1884 Stratus condensation above, and in connection with cumulus condensation, is not uncommon, but that precise form is rare. The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes One minute they were in the midst of a cumulus cloud; the next, through it. Around the World in Ten Days The back drop should be of light blue with a few cumulus clouds in white. The White Christmas and other Merry Christmas Plays This was partly because I did not want to hurt him, and partly because a white cumulus cloud is a bad part of your sketch to kill a black beetle on. Six to Sixteen A Story for Girls These thunder cumuli entirely hide the higher Alps. The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century Two Lectures delivered at the London Institution February 4th and 11th, 1884 It is but a cumulus, or a stratus, or cirro-stratus dissolving in snow or rain. The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes Between the flyers and the sun stretched isolated towers of cumulus, cast up as if erupted by the chaos below. Around the World in Ten Days The cumuli, a perfectly oval kind of cloud, piled upon the south, presented a most awful and sinister appearance, with the pitiless aspect often seen before a storm. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth From this cumulus a straight line of lightning shot up 10° above the cloud into a perfectly clear sky, and terminated abruptly without branching. Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence We so rarely now see cumulus cloud of this grand kind, that I will yet delay you by reading the description of its nearer aspect, in the 'Eagle's Nest.' The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century Two Lectures delivered at the London Institution February 4th and 11th, 1884 I have seen the scud assume a distinct cumulus form, but never to become sufficiently dense to make a thunder shower. The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes Down the bare slope with its dead grass blotched by craters the eye travels and then up another slope to a crest which you see as a cumulus of shell-tossed earth under an occasional shell-burst. My Second Year of the War I was awakened by the sun pouring in at my window, and looked out on to a light, bright blue sky, full of white cumuli that cast down purple shadows upon a grey-green sea. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891 Then another seven miles, for curvature, will give an altitude of fifteen miles for the cumuli. Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence White cumulus clouds appear, floating lazily in the azure, reflected by the river below. Some Summer Days in Iowa The Boer positions stood silhouetted by stray puffs of white smoke against a lowering cumulus of clouds. Sir John French An Authentic Biography During part of its flight it passed between two towering cumulus clouds. The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects Boucher's goddesses and cherubs, disporting themselves in graceful abandonment on happily disposed clouds, outlined in cumulus masses against unvarying azure, are as unrestrained and independent of prescription as Monticelli's figures. French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture These are caused by the tops of the great cumuli of the storm, when sunk below the horizon, intercepting the sun’s rays, which still shine on the upper atmosphere. Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence And the grey, drifting cumuli with gaps of blue, and the cinnamon and purple woods, broken with yellowish poplars and pale willows, with red farms, and yellow gorse lighted up by the sun!!! Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books The clouds which overspread the firmament were of the cumulus pattern. The Jungle Fugitives A Tale of Life and Adventure in India Including also Many Stories of American Adventure, Enterprise and Daring Upon its trembling roof the piles of oats, thrown by the men on the stack alongside, showed a pure golden; above the sky was dazzlingly blue, and in it the white cumuli rode brilliantly. Secret Bread Heavy cumuli hanging about; no rain afterwards. 7th July, 1867.—Hamees started this morning with about 300 followers dressed in all their finery, and he declares that his sole object is peace. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 Immediately a wonderful light played upon the fleecy cumuli gathered in the upper heavens of the east and changed them from pearl to brilliant scarlet. The Girl of the Golden West Generally speaking, all the forms of cloud have a tendency to rise during the course of the day; the change, excepting for the cumulus form, amounting to nearly 6,500 feet. Scientific American Supplement, No. 613, October 1, 1887 Mr. Ruskin tells us that Turner did not paint the high Alps, nor the cumulus, the grandest form of cloud. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 The mist had lifted like magic, and we were not far toward Staten Island before we knew a fine, blowing, clear day, presided over, in the still, upper spaces, by great, leaning cumulus clouds. Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative The sun had gone, but above the crooked back of cumulus clouds, dark and pink with radiance, and on the other sky aloft to the eastward piled the gorgeous-curtained mists of evening. Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil Or try and draw some cumulus clouds from imagination, several groups of them 186across a sky, and you will find how often again you have repeated unconsciously the same forms. The Practice and Science of Drawing With regard to the connection between the character of the weather and the height of the clouds, the heights of the bases of the cumulus are nearly constant in all conditions. Scientific American Supplement, No. 613, October 1, 1887 It remained cloudy and threatening the greater part of the way, and a little rain fell, but eventually the sun shone, though great masses of "cumuli" continue to hang about. Three Months of My Life Light masses of cumulus cloud were rushing over the sky, and driving waves of blue and purple colour across the mountain masses and the forest slopes. Lady Merton, Colonist Far away in the south-west lay a great cumulus of rugged clouds from which dark streamers radiated over the sky, like the advance guard of an army. The Firm of Girdlestone During our stay the sky was generally overcast, with heavy cumuli, and distant lightning at night, but no rain fell, and the heat was excessive. Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 1 In the hot air a bank of cumulus clouds glowed red as from a distant conflagration. Where the Trail Divides Then from the heavier guns come dense puff-balls of tawny orange, violet, and heliotrope, followed by fleecy little cumuli of purest white. The Soul of the War And from Cloudology, by the changing of primary clouds into compound; and these resolving themselves into nimbi, for rain; or gathering into cumuli, for fair weather. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 558, July 21, 1832 At 8.30 we sighted Mount Erebus, distant about 115 miles; the sky is covered with light cumulus and an easterly wind has sprung up, force 2 to 3. Scott's Last Expedition Volume I It was a day of clouds, thin sheetings and dense cumulus masses sweeping on the west wind and breaking against the mountains. Alcatraz The afternoon cumulus clouds had dissipated in a pale blue sky. Joe Burke's Last Stand In the distance lightning flashed between dark cumulus clouds. The Tarn of Eternity Usually the clouds are of the cumulus variety and roll leisurely by in billowy masses. Arizona Sketches The broken cumulus slowly changed to a uniform stratus, which seems to be thinning as the sun gains power. Scott's Last Expedition Volume I The cumuli That peeped above the mountain-tops would burn Carmine a space; the cirrus-whorls on high, More delicate than sprays of maiden fern, Streak with pale rose the peacock-breasted sky, Then blanch. Poems You will find the proper names of these things in the reports of the Weather Bureau—cirrus, cumulus, and the like and charts that will teach by study when to sow and take up crops. The Land of Little Rain On the far horizon white cumulus clouds were forming. The Tarn of Eternity From his bed he could see the great cumulus clouds that hung in the blue sky. Of Human Bondage In the mean time clouds were growing down in Shasta Valley—massive swelling cumuli, displaying delicious tones of purple and gray in the hollows of their sun-beaten bosses. Steep Trails California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon On the horizon fine streaks of cirrhous clouds were succeeded by masses of cumuli. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea At noon, nimbus, and some rain, tantalised us with the hope of a change; but the sky drew up into clouds of cumulus by the evening. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia High above white cumulus clouds floated in an azure sky. The Tarn of Eternity At sunset the thermometer was at 55°; the evening clear and calm, with some cumuli. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources He paints, as a rule, the rolling cumulus, and is one of the first of the younger artists. Dutch Life in Town and Country Then a regular pyramid, at this season white as snow, shows its gnomon-like point, impaling the cumuli. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Ranges of cumuli moved, one after the other, like heaps of silvery wool, across the keen, dark blue of the sky. The Story of Kennett A coppery haze hung over London, above which the rusty white summits of a range of cumulus cloud towered into the thick grey-blue of the upper sky. The Far Horizon There was a slight rain in the earlier part of the day, and at noon, when the thermometer had risen to 79.5°, we had a bright sun, with blue sky and scattered cumuli. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources There were some new cumuli in the east, out above the water, and they began to take the late afternoon sun. Bertram Cope's Year They looked down into deep blue and green water glassing a sky warm now, and friendly, in which high white cumuli sailed slowly, like full-rigged ships all but becalmed. The Nest Builder It is easy to believe that Hawthorne imagined this dream of a summer evening, while watching the great cumulus clouds, tinted with rose and lavender like aerial snow-mountains, floating toward the horizon. The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne At four p.m. cold and clouds; cumuli and cirri. The Land of Midian — Volume 2 The last mile of its course lies between the sides of sunken domes and swelling folds of the granite that are clustered and pressed together like a mass of bossy cumulus clouds. The Yosemite Some large cumuli were abroad—white, or less white, or even darkling,—the first windy sky of autumn. Bertram Cope's Year You will find the proper names of these things in the reports of the Weather Bureau—cirrus, cumulus, and the like—and charts that will teach by study when to sow and take up crops. The Land of Little Rain The clouds, in huge cumuli, were hurrying as to some great rendezvous, from which they were to be let loose for their work of destruction. Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic" Some are close-packed and dense, like cumuli; some are wispy or mottled, like cirri. Curiosities of the Sky The clouds of the cumulus form, the rolling of thunder, the lightning flashes, the rushing wind, and the pouring rain are full of important lessons. Uncle Robert's Geography (Uncle Robert's Visit, V.3) There came a sudden flaw from out one of the racing gray cumuli, and a faint cry or two from the distant shore. Bertram Cope's Year Overhead huge white cumulus clouds, piled tier on tier like fantastic galleons in full sail, floated, changing slowly in a greenish sky. Three Soldiers On the 17th, the rain clouds cleared away, the sun shone out, and only a few fleecy cumuli sailed across the blue sky, driven by the north-east trade wind. The Naturalist in Nicaragua Whirlies tracked about at intervals and overhead a fine cumulus cloud formed, revolving rapidly. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 From the creek, below the little girl's house, the orchard hill appeared against the soft, blue, sky a wonderous, cumulus, cloud of fleecy whiteness flushed with a glow of delicate pink. Their Yesterdays Then the heat was intense, and the heavy cumulus clouds were charged with thunder and lightning. Catharine Furze The vapour having then risen, occupied the upper air in the form of light cirrostratus and cumulus clouds. Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia The weather had cleared up, white cumuli only sailed across the blue aerial ocean. The Naturalist in Nicaragua Gradually the nimbus lightened, a rift appeared overhead, and,the edges of the billowy cumulus were burnished in the light of the low sun. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 During the day livid volumed smoke forms cumuli that conceal their enemy, the sun, and discharge a rain of blacks ten times the size of Londoners. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Among the three formations of cirrus, cumulus and stratus, the cumulus has a special place as representing in the most actual sense what is meant by the term 'cloud'. Man or Matter Along the sky-line the white clouds lay in carelessly piled cumuli, like snow thrown up from a clearing. A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus Over Erebus the sun’s rays peeped through the massed cumulus and produced the most gorgeous cloud effects. South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition The morning was bright; cumuli gathered about noon, and the afternoon was cloudy. Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 The clouds, which rolled fleecy and white in piles and crenulated bastions of cumulus, lighted the eyes of the man and maid as they went onward upon the crisping piny carpet of fallen fir-needles. The Lilac Sunbonnet Between the two, the cumulus, even viewed simply as a form-type, represents an exact mean. Man or Matter He pointed upward to a break in the trees, to a large cumulus cloud that had assumed a fantastic shape. The Shepherd of the Hills The surface became very rough in the afternoon, and the light, too, was bad owing to cumulus clouds being massed over the sun. South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition Sky clear; cumuli to the S. W.; wind from the westward. Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 The heavily voluted cumulus clouds lower gloomily and threateningly; they wear that implacable look which I have sometimes noticed at the outbreak of a great storm. A Journey to the Interior of the Earth In how densely mounded a shape does the majestically towering cumulus appear before us, and yet how buoyantly it hovers aloft in the heights! Man or Matter The sky was heavily charged with electric cumuli, warning them of renewed storms. Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon Lifted to such heights, the branches appear to be covered with masses of peculiarly soft and rounded foliage like the piled-up banks of a white cumulus cloud before a thunderstorm. The Red Man's Continent: a chronicle of aboriginal America The wind was generally from the eastward during the morning, with cumuli; but these disappeared in the afternoon. Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 White clouds would appear in the cast and gather into cumuli, with an increasing blackness along their lower portions. The Naturalist on the River Amazons If one ever comes into the midst of a cumulus cloud in the mountains, one sees how its myriads of single particles are in ceaseless movement. Man or Matter True enough, that luminary, large and round, was declining into—rather, towards—the sea, while suspended between him and the water were low, dark, white-topped cumuli. Through Russia The tobacco smoke grew denser, drifting and rising in spirals, waves, tilted layers, cumulus clouds, cataracts and suspended fogs like some fifth element created from the ribs of the ancient four. Strictly business: more stories of the four million Thick cumuli came from the northward during the afternoon, but disappeared towards sunset. Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 When the white cumulus clouds rolled up out of the southwest, growing larger and thicker and darker, here and there coalescing into a black thundercloud, Jean welcomed them. To the Last Man More recent meteorological research has established that in many cumulus forms the entire mass is in constant rotation, although seen from outside, it appears as a stable, unvarying shape. Man or Matter A gentle breeze was blowing, and the sky was of the usual "Trade" character, that is, a dome of dark blue fringed at the horizon with peaceful cumulus clouds, almost motionless. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Above, the heavens made a complete hemisphere of blue in which a series of remote cumulus clouds floated and dissolved. Soul of a Bishop The day had been exceedingly hot; but the passing shadows of cumuli which formed in the afternoon, occasionally afforded us a delightful relief. Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 In the afternoon, heavy cumuli, which dissolved towards sunset; a strong wind from the north and north by east. Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 Nowhere in nature may the supremacy of form over matter be so vividly observed as in the cumulus cloud. Man or Matter A dry but not hot wind blew from the S. S. W.; the night and morning were bright; cumuli with sharp margins hung about after eleven o'clock. Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 Loose cumuli floated in the hazy atmosphere during the whole forenoon, but rose in the afternoon, and occasionally sheltered us from the scorching sun. Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 A cold easterly wind continued during the day; low rainy clouds in the morning formed into heavy cumuli during the afternoon. Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 Wind prevailed from the northward: the forenoon was cloudless; heavy cumuli in the afternoon. Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 And the forms of the cumuli themselves tell us in manifold metamorphoses of a state of equilibrium between expansive and contractive tendencies within the atmosphere. Man or Matter The wind for the last few days has been westerly; cumuli forming during the day, dissolved towards sunset; the days were very hot, the nights mild and dry. Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 A strong easterly wind was blowing during the day, and no cumuli formed. Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 The mornings were generally either cloudless, or with small cumuli, which increased as the day advanced, but disappeared at sunset; the wind was, as far as I could judge, northerly, north-easterly, and easterly. Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 |
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