Spring Storms!

Today when I woke up it looked as though it would be a beautiful day, but after class some stratus clouds were blanketing the sky, and when I left work early afternoon (about 1pm) there were BEAUTIFUL textbook cumulus clouds in the sky and I knew that we were going to be in for a rainstorm this afternoon! The majority were cumulus congestus and they continued to grow as the afternoon went on. My prediction was that we would get a pretty intense rain storm this afternoon. I was partially right-it did rain, and the black storm clouds made it look like it was going to thunderstorm; however, they blew over us and we only received precipitation.

Here is a picture that I took this afternoon of the cumulus clouds!