So unless you are going to be a smart-arse and start the journey with a C and only inform your three-year-old the answer was "cumulo-nimbus cloud" when you get to Cornwall seven hours later, then it's a non-starter. ❋ Unknown (2010)
As we left that set that day, the memories of Osama Bin Laden and the havoc he created in this country were but a cumulo-nimbus cloud pushed back to the recesses of my mind. ❋ Unknown (2009)
They had emerged at the top of the high-stacked cumulo-nimbus, and now began lazily to drift down its contours, as Fenchurch eased Arthur in turn from his clothes, prised him free of them till all were gone, winding their surprised way down into the enveloping whiteness. ❋ Adams, Douglas, 1952- (1984)
His ship began plunging recklessly into a floor of dirty gray cotton, thick cumulo-nimbus clouds. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1978)
At lower levels, rising pockets of heat from the built-up areas bumped the - aeroplane about like a iuppet, and to enormous heights great heaps of cumulo-nimbus cloud were boiling up all round the horizon. ❋ Francis, Dick (1970)
The clouds were bubbling up towards them, and perhaps it was on account of that great mystification of cumulus and cumulo-nimbus, the mighty rolling thunderheads standing like hammers in the dawn, or perhaps it was the singing ❋ Rushdie, Salman (1967)
At half past two in the afternoon it was as dark as twilight and out of the great black wall of cumulo-nimbus that all but surrounded us the wind flung itself upon the X 13, as if it were going to uproot it from its thirteen-leg foundation, topple it and drown it in the depths of the sea. ❋ MacLean, Alistair (1961)
You can see now, "he continued," how the thunder heads of cumulo-nimbus are beginning to show, leaden in color below, with the white billowy tops. ❋ Francis Rolt-Wheeler (1918)
We're talking a full spectrum onslaught from the angry cumulo-nimbus above. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The pilot said he thinks the AirBus lost it's weather radar and the pilots flew into a 51,000 feet (cumulo-nimbus) huge cloud bank. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The report said the pilot sent a manual signal at 11pm local time saying he was flying through an area of "CBs" - black, electrically charged cumulo-nimbus clouds that come with violent winds and lightning. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The report says the pilot sent a manual signal at 11 p.m. local time saying he was flying through an area of "CBs" -- black, electrically charged cumulo-nimbus clouds that come with violent winds and lightning.
"The thunderstorm clouds are called cumulo-nimbus. ❋ Francis Rolt-Wheeler (1918)
