A Cloud Story


Written & Illustrated

by

Allyson S. Morgan

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Looking out of the window this morning I thought that it might rain.  I thought I saw sheets of gray altostratus clouds hanging in the middle of the sky.

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I turned on the radio and listened to the weather forecast.  The meteorologist predicted a mostly cloudy day including a high chance of showers and drizzling rain.  Steady rain would develop by the evening rush hour.  That’s when I realized that what I saw from my window were really gray altocumulus clouds.

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I decided that I should carry an umbrella with me as I walked to work.  The wind blew the clouds by quickly so that by the time I got to the school building, the sun almost seemed to be shining through the cirrostratus clouds.

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I didn’t regret carrying my umbrella though.  The meteorologist’s forecast was accurate.   As the day wore on, the sunshine was eventually covered by a wall of nimbostratus clouds that were blown in from the north.   They were so heavy and hung so low that they looked like thick fog.
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That evening, steady rain poured down from those dark, heavy, low-hanging, nimbostratus clouds.

The End

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Bibliography

de Paola, Tomie, The Cloud Book, 1975, Scholastic Book
      Services, New York, NY

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