What are all the different types of clouds?

What types of clouds are there, and what causes them?

• Can you please give me information on each type of cloud and what causes them and describe to me what they are and there facts.

• Answer:

  there are, broadly, two kinds of clouds. Cumuliform or 'heap' clouds rise upwards from a flat base. Stratiform or 'layer' clouds form thin blankets across the sky. Cloud types are grouped according to their height. five are low clouds - that is, they usually occur up to 2500 metres. they are Stratus, a uniform grey cloud; Cumulus, a white heaped cloud; Cumulonimbus, or thundercloud, the upper part of which often resembles an anvil; Nimbostratus, a grey or dark layer, often blurred by falling rain or snow; and Stratocumulus, a greyish-white, shaded sheet of cloud. Medium clouds occur between about 2500 and 6100 metres above the ground. medium clouds are Altocumulus, a greyish-white cloud composed of rounded masses which often merge; and Altostratus, a greyish sheet of cloud often seen as depressions approach. High clouds, above 6100 metres, include Cirrocumulus, a thin patch of cloud, showing ripples or rounded masses; Cirrostratus, a fibrous, transparent whitish cloud, which may cause a 'halo' around the Sun or Moon; and Cirrus a delicate white fibrous cloud. Cloud is a mass of tiny water droplets or ice crystals formed when water in the air condenses