Genus of clouds, dense towering vertical cloud associated with thunderstorms and atmospheric instability.
1 The surrounding hills still have their forests; cumulonimbus clouds towering over them like clenched fists.
2 Marching away, far in the distance, rising above the mountains, lines of towering cumulonimbus flickered magically.
3 Tall cumulonimbus scurried through the darkening sky, splashed a pale rose gold by the vanishing sun.
4 The lightning moved up the towers of cumulonimbus .
5 Specifically, the scientists were looking at the temperatures at the very tops of each storm's cumulonimbus clouds.
6 But it wasn't enough to send him scurrying in retreat, and Janacek's brows knit in a cumulonimbus frown.
7 The sun was hidden by moisture-laden cumulonimbus that sprinkled a light dusting of dry powder snow on the travelers.
8 The cumulonimbus they called Grossman.
9 I still have a hard time naming all the different types of cloud patterns, whether they be cumulonimbus or nimbostratus.
10 And we also know the process occurs most spectacularly in the large towering cumulonimbus clouds that we associate with thundery conditions.
11 The Storm King will offer you a haven-He pointed off to a distant cloud, a great cumulonimbus on the horizon.
12 They realised that tropical cumulonimbus clouds could tower to 15km tall, so high they reached the top of the lower atmosphere.
13 As the building cloud gets taller, it becomes capable of producing lightning, rain, and hail and takes on a new name: cumulonimbus .
14 The winds had gusted great roils, rock cumulonimbus on the anvil-tops of which they laid tracks quickly, nervous that they might revert.
15 Charlie could read the fraying of the anvil-shaped tops of the cumulonimbus ; it showed that at fifteen thousand meters there was a return flow.
16 The hot air rises and dense cumulonimbus clouds form as towering plumes reaching up to 12 km (39,000 ft) high.
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