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How can the clouds in the sky give you a clue about the weather to come?

Look up on different days and the clouds are never quite the same: some high and feathery, some low and grey, some piled up into towers. People have long said the clouds can warn you what is coming. How can the clouds in the sky give you a clue about the weather to come?

A dark shelf cloud rolling in low over the sea, with rain falling beneath it and people watching from a jetty
Photo: Arnold Paul · CC BY-SA 2.5 · via Wikimedia Commons

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