Really? What is the technical definition of a "cloud"?

I would say if you use the word "cloud" to describe it, it's a cloud.

If you're so sure it doesn't qualify as a cloud, why did you call it a
cloud? What is it, if not a cloud?

Well, it's truly a semantic problem. As the Eskimos have 60 words for
"snow", I think we need more words for "cloud."

I think we're also getting hung up on my use of the word "scattered" in
the story -- which, in FAA terminology, means a LOT more clouds (or
whatever they should be called; from hereout I shall call them
"puffies", meaning "less than cloud") than I was playing with. There
were far less than "few" (as the FAA would say), and the puffies were
aligned in a nice, neat row of about five miles in length.

I'm always surprised by the development of puffies in a row --
especially a sharply defined, very small row. It's hard to imagine
what is happening in the atmosphere to cause their development in such
a tighly defined area, but I see them fairly regularly around here.
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
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