nimbus clouds

Cultural  

1. The dark clouds characteristic of storms.

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Example Sentences

Radar domes, used for military surveillance, floated like nimbus clouds.

From New York Times

She can create hovering nimbus clouds of harmony with the best of them.

From New York Times

Thunderstorm clouds are called cumulonimbus clouds — the nimbus part of the name comes from the Latin for “dark cloud,” because the moisture within nimbus clouds can block or reduce incoming sunlight.

From Los Angeles Times

It was bitterly cold in the crow's-nest however much one put on then, and water skies often turned out to be nimbus clouds after we had laboured and cannoned towards them.

From Project Gutenberg

At three P.M. the blue sky appeared in the west, and the nimbus clouds subsided.

From Project Gutenberg