Clouds

About

We owe our current names for clouds to Luke Howard. Wikipedia tells us that "Howard was not the first to attempt a classification of clouds—Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829) had earlier proposed a list of descriptive terms in French—but the success of Howard's system was due to his use of universal Latin, as well as to his emphasis on the mutability of clouds. By applying Linnean principles of natural history classification to phenomena as short-lived as clouds, Howard arrived at an elegant solution to the problem of naming transitional forms in nature." (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luke_Howard&oldid=472619774)

This list has Howard's names, but I'm also searching for alternate, archaic, slang, and former names for the forms we see in the sky.

For more about clouds, see cloud-words by notanotherjazzpoet and cloudy by fbharjo.