A: Often low clouds, like stratus and cumulus, appear to have flat bases. These clouds form as air near the ground is rising. As the air rises it expands and cools. So, as a layer of air near the ground rises, the height at which condensation occurs does not vary much and the cloud base height appears uniform.

As warm air rises, the water vapour remains invisible until the air cools enough for it to condense into water droplets. Providing that more air feeds in from below, new cloud will form there and preserve the flat bottom. The existing cloud is pushed upwards, forming a fluffy top.

As the air continues to rise, that first chunk of cloud gets pushed up as more cloud forms beneath, resulting in a cloud that’s puffy on top but flat on the bottom.

Cirrus clouds are the highest of all clouds and are composed entirely of ice crystals.

Stratus clouds are dull grayish clouds that often stretch across and block the entire sky; stratus means “a layer” and these clouds form flat, unbroken sheets, like a fog that is not on the ground. Stratus clouds produce only mist, drizzle or very light snow.

Cumulonimbus (from Latin cumulus, “heaped” and nimbus, “rainstorm”) is a dense, towering vertical cloud, forming from water vapor carried by powerful upward air currents. If observed during a storm, these clouds may be referred to as thunderheads.

British. : the day on which rent or interest is due.

1 : a Scottish Highlander. 2 : a Celtic especially Gaelic-speaking inhabitant of Ireland, Scotland, or the Isle of Man.

MEANING: This is a feminine given name derived from the name of the Jewish dancer “‘Ăbı̂ygayil / ‘Ăbı̂ygal > Avigáyil,” meaning “father rejoices” or “father’s joy.” Abigail was the wife of Nabal and later of King David in the Hebrew Bible (Book of Samuel).

▲ as a boys’ name (also used less commonly as girls’ name Gael) is of French origin. The French name Gaël may be a short form of the Breton name Judicaël, meaning “generous leader”. The name may also be a short form of Gwenaël (gwenn “white, fair, pure”, and hael “generous”), the name of a Breton saint.

Unisex with a twist: As a boy’s name, Gael is pronounced ga-EL, but for girls, it’s said as the one-syllable gale. It’s got lots of fans and not just in Gaelic-centric Scotland and Ireland—parents in Wales, Spain and Brittany, France, like it a lot too. But it didn’t become a known name in the US until 2002.

While the popularity of the masculine name Gaël has been consistently at about rank 100 in France during the 2000s, the feminine name was at rank 100 in 2000 but has declined in popularity since, dropping below rank 400 by 2010.

Wales

The baby name Gael is of Hebrew origin and means Father’s joy.

Gaal (Hebrew:גַּעַל) was a minor 12th century BCE biblical character, introduced in the 9th chapter of Judges in the Hebrew Bible as the son of Ebed or Eved, or the son of a slave. His story is told in Judges 9:26–41. Gaal had occupied Shechem and boasted to Zebul, the ruler of Shechem, that he could defeat Abimelech.