Cloud Form Roots: Which cloud form is described as puffy?

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Cloud Form Roots: Which cloud form is described as puffy?

Explanation:
Puffy clouds come from vertical air movement that builds rounded, cottony masses. The cloud form that matches this description is cumulus—the classic cotton-ball clouds with a flat base and a puffed, bulbous top. Cirrus clouds are wispy and high, stratus form a gray sheet, and nimbus refers to rain-bearing clouds (often associated with cumulonimbus or nimbostratus).

Puffy clouds come from vertical air movement that builds rounded, cottony masses. The cloud form that matches this description is cumulus—the classic cotton-ball clouds with a flat base and a puffed, bulbous top. Cirrus clouds are wispy and high, stratus form a gray sheet, and nimbus refers to rain-bearing clouds (often associated with cumulonimbus or nimbostratus).

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