Talk:Nimbostratus cloud

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This article doesn't give that much information. I'm looking for some descrpitions about this cloud.(=^_^=)

It gives you the atlitude, what it looks like, and the chances of rain. What more do you need to know? -Dr. Cribbit

Nimbostratus photo
The nimbostratus photo "Image:Nov20-05-Nimbostratus.jpg" is not an accurate representation of this cloud. That particular photo shows more of a thick stratocumulus or altocumulus layer with very distinct texture. Nimbostratus is formless and is just a dull gray, usually with steady precipitation. -Rolypolyman (talk) 05:40, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

I have to agree. I've been considering this for a while, and the clouds pictures are not nimbostratus clouds, I think. I'm thinking more along the lines of strao or Altocumulus opacus? The picture is still a good one though, it just needs to be moved to the appropriate article.PiccoloNamek (talk) 02:27, 14 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Worry no more! I have replaced the image with one that is almost certainly Ns. --The High Fin Sperm Whale (talk) 18:01, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Controdiction betwean and article
The box at the bottom lists Nimbostratus as a medium-level cloud,whereas the article says it is a low-level cloud. I am fairly sure that the later is correct, but I'm not sure how to change the box at the bottom. Maybe only administrators can change it? If so, could someone contact an administrator and ask them to to fix it? --The High Fin Sperm Whale (talk) 18:12, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Nah, I'm pretty sure it can be edited... -goes to look-
 * ✅ - Yup, I changed it. Thanks for pointing it out! :) Icy  // ♫ 21:23, 15 May

You're both right. Nimbostratus is both a low and medium cloud. It generally forms from medium level altostratus with the base subsiding into the low level during precipitation. The result is a cloud of considerable thickness that is more and more generally classified as being of moderate vertical development rather than as low or medium level only. ChrisCarss Former24.108.99.31 (talk) 14:45, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

The picture is a flanking line (Nimbostratus clouds in Istanbul.jpg)
I corrected the characterisation of the cloud in French, but I do not dare to remove this picture (I have too few contributions in the English wikipedia) and replace it by something more correct. In my opinion, this cloud is a flanking line in front of a bad thunderstorm (mammatus and cirrus aloft). This is confirmed by a search on wunderground. There was a thunderstorm at 14:03 June 4th 2016. My 2 centimes d'euro comment. Malosse (talk) 03:23, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
 * The leading image was wrongly named by a Turkish contributor and wrongly inputted on June 6th, 2016 by an IP. I reverted to the correct Ns photo (Ns1.jpg). Pierre cb (talk) 14:33, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

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Orphaned references in Nimbostratus cloud
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Nimbostratus cloud's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "nws-jetstream": From Cirrus cloud:  From Cumulus cloud:  

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 16:08, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

Intro is clogged with nomenclature details
The intro spends too much time tediously going over what classification and who calls it what. Joe Sixpack, the average reader (I would like to think), doesn't care about what the classification codes of the 1950s were. And it's a big, gray blob that should be broken up into paragraphs.

heck, I'll just do it. Here's the parts I removed; there's detailed references in here:

Nimbostratus is a stratiform genus formerly classified as "Family C” low-level, but now considered by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to be a middle- or multi-level stratus type..

This change in classification would once have made it a "Family D" cloud, but this style of letter-based family nomenclature was discontinued by the WMO in 1956.

This sometimes leads to the exclusion of nimbostratus from the group of vertical clouds by some independent meteorologists and educators. Classifications that follow this approach usually show nimbostratus as low-level  based on its normal base height range.

"Urlampe" listed at Redirects for discussion
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Urlampe. The discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 November 26 until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Certes (talk) 16:59, 26 November 2021 (UTC)