Fine and clear (E. light); small cumuli at noon; clear night. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence] Reference
Clouds -- light cumuli to north, east, and west; south clear. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian] Reference
Very fine and clear, (N. - W.); noon, a line of large cumuli in. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence] Reference
Fine clear morning (W.); noon, scattered cumuli in north; 6 P. M. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence] Reference
The sky was heavily charged with electric cumuli, warning them of renewed storms. From Wordnik.com. [Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon] Reference
On the horizon fine streaks of cirrhous clouds were succeeded by masses of cumuli. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea] Reference
Clear morning (N. - E.), a bank of cumuli in south: noon quite cloudy in S. and clear in north. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence] Reference
Then another seven miles, for curvature, will give an altitude of fifteen miles for the cumuli. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence] Reference
Scarcely a day of all the summer is dark, though there is no lack of magnificent thundering cumuli. From Wordnik.com. [The Yosemite National Park] Reference
N., and dark lines of stratus below, the cumuli moving eastward; 6 P. M., their altitude 2° 40′. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence] Reference
Around midday, white cumuli (?) arose over the mountain range (I was told that those are from the Atlantic). From Wordnik.com. [Unthreaded #7 « Climate Audit] Reference
The mountain thunderheads he loved, and the lens clouds, and the afternoon cumuli, still form over the Sierra. From Wordnik.com. [Ansel Adams at 100] Reference
Another look and they are no more, just towering cumuli-nimbi, strafing the foothills with the lashes of the gods. From Wordnik.com. [The Towers of the Sunset]
It is a cloud that is in the shape of a funnel that forms from just usually the southwestern corner of a cumuli nimbus cloud. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2006] Reference
Gregory: a very hard gale from west by south, clear sky with few cumuli; temperature 57°, dew-point 36°, — difference 21°. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference
(S. very fresh;) warm, 86°; more cumuli in N. - W. -- the whole line of cumuli N. are separated from the clouds south by a clear space. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence] Reference
Numerous heavy cumuli formed during the afternoon. From Wordnik.com. [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] Reference
S.y clear; cumuli to the S. W.; wind from the westward. From Wordnik.com. [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] Reference
In facto, pro momento ego fui "percussus omnis cumuli," ut dictum est. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, August 13, 1887] Reference
A strong easterly wind was blowing during the day, and no cumuli formed. From Wordnik.com. [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] Reference
The morning was bright; cumuli gathered about noon, and the afternoon was cloudy. From Wordnik.com. [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] Reference
The weather had cleared up, white cumuli only sailed across the blue aerial ocean. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference
The forenoon was very clear; cumuli and cirrho-cumuli gathered during the afternoon. From Wordnik.com. [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] Reference
Thick cumuli came from the northward during the afternoon, but disappeared towards sunset. From Wordnik.com. [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] Reference
Wind prevailed from the northward: the forenoon was cloudless; heavy cumuli in the afternoon. From Wordnik.com. [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] Reference
Round the horizon it was of steely brilliancy, while reddish cumuli and cirri floated southwards. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference
The cumuli resembled mountains in shape, and their peaked summits shone as white as Alpine snows. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference
Then a regular pyramid, at this season white as snow, shows its gnomon-like point, impaling the cumuli. From Wordnik.com. [To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I] Reference
Along the sky-line the white clouds lay in carelessly piled cumuli, like snow thrown up from a clearing. From Wordnik.com. [A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus] Reference
Some large cumuli were abroad -- white, or less white, or even darkling, -- the first windy sky of autumn. From Wordnik.com. [Bertram Cope's Year] Reference
There were some new cumuli in the east, out above the water, and they began to take the late afternoon sun. From Wordnik.com. [Bertram Cope's Year] Reference
In the afternoon, heavy cumuli, which dissolved towards sunset; a strong wind from the north and north by east. From Wordnik.com. [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] Reference
There came a sudden flaw from out one of the racing gray cumuli, and a faint cry or two from the distant shore. From Wordnik.com. [Bertram Cope's Year] Reference
I see the great mass of white cumuli and against them the dark cedars, the straggling foot-path and steep cliffs. From Wordnik.com. [Outdoor Sketching Four Talks Given before the Art Institute of Chicago; The Scammon Lectures, 1914] Reference
The wind was generally from the eastward during the morning, with cumuli; but these disappeared in the afternoon. From Wordnik.com. [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] Reference
White clouds now appear in the east, and gather into cumuli, with an increasing blackness along their lower portions. From Wordnik.com. [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference
A cold easterly wind continued during the day; low rainy clouds in the morning formed into heavy cumuli during the afternoon. From Wordnik.com. [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] Reference
"What would happen to this kingdom, Mr. Wu, if we all sat on our backsides painting pretty rocks and cumuli and singing lullabies?". From Wordnik.com. [Guernica Magazine] Reference
A few distant cumuli sailed near the horizon, but the zenith and a vast angular space all round it were absolutely free from cloud. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference
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