Cirrus cloud tropopause prevents the warm, moist air forming the thunderstorm from rising any higher, thus creating the flat top. In the tropics, these thunderstorms occasionally produce copious amounts of cirrus from their anvils. High-altitude winds commonly push this dense mat out into an anvil shape that stretches downwind as much as several kilometers. Individual cirrus cloud formations can be the remnants of anvil clouds formed by thunderstorms. In the dissipating stage of a cumulonimbus cloud, when the normal column rising up to the anvil has evaporated or dissipated, the mat of cirrus in the anvil is all that is left. Contrails
Cloud dragon Horrors" (2002) from Necromancer Games. The cloud dragon appeared in Paizo Publishing's book "Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Bestiary 2" (2010), on pages 96–97. Cloud dragon The cloud dragon, also known as the Draco Cumulus Welkin, is a type of dragon in the "Dungeons & Dragons" fantasy role-playing game. The cloud dragon first appeared in the first edition "Monster Manual II" (1983). The cloud dragon appeared in second edition for the Greyhawk setting in the "Monstrous Compendium Greyhawk Appendix" (1990), and is reprinted in the "Monstrous Manual" (1993). A cloud dragon is a neutrally aligned dragon which can take a gaseous form