Stratocumulus castellanus or Stratocumulus castellatus is a type of

stratocumulus A stratocumulus cloud, occasionally called a cumulostratus, belongs to a genus-type of clouds characterized by large dark, rounded masses, usually in groups, lines, or waves, the individual elements being larger than those in altocumulus, and the ...

cloud,

castellanus A castellanus (or castellatus) (from latin ''castellanus'', castle) is a cloud that displays at least in its upper part cumuliform protuberances having the shape of turrets that give a battlement, crenellated aspect. Some of these turrets are hig ...

is derived from

Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...

, meaning 'of a castle' This type of cloud appears as cumuliform turrets vertically rising from a common horizontal cloud base, these turrets are taller than they are wide This type of cloud indicates an increasingly unstable atmosphere, and seeing this type of cloud in the morning usually means that there is a possibility of

thunderstorms A thunderstorm, also known as an electrical storm or a lightning storm, is a storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere, known as thunder. Relatively weak thunderstorms are someti ...

forming later in the afternoon In the right conditions, these clouds can grow into cumulus congestus clouds, and sometimes, into cumulonimbus clouds

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