The Jacques Cousteau cloud?

Photographed over Schiehallion, Perthshire, Scotland © Ken Prior. See this photo in the Cloud Gallery here.

Do you remember all the different types of clouds you had to memorize in school? Well, there's another category of clouds on the horizon. If the folks at The Cloud Appreciation Society have their way, the Altocumulus cloud (nicknamed the Jacques Cousteau cloud) would be classified as "asperatus," which is Latin for "roughened up," making it officially Altocumulus asperatus. The clouds in question are storm clouds that have a "dark, choppy" quality to them.

Read more about Asperatus here.

Kids can learn more about the different cloud types here.

Learn more about clouds and get some printouts at Enchanted Learning.

(H/T Watts Up With That?)