Altocumulus? Cumulus congestus? Contrail? Cirrocumulus?
If you thought yesterday’s survey was a strange thing to ask about, here’s an even odder one – goo Ranking on one’s favourite cloud. As usual for goo Rankings, there is no demographic information, and the top-scoring costume gets 100 points and all the rest get rates as a percentage of the top rank. This survey was also conducted over a three day period towards the end of September.
Just in case you’re not familiar with the term contrails, it means the condensation trail left behind jet aircrafts, but is also the source of many chemtrail conspiracy theories (warning – secure tinfoil hat before clicking link).
In addition, the auspicious clouds answer includes, I believe, the popular Japanese folk belief that earthquakes are preceded by very red clouds at sunset.
Living in Japan, one would, however, get the impression that the favourite clouds are from the fog of cigarette smoke. My personal favourite is my tag cloud.
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