One hobbyist named cirrus, cumulus, and stratus back in 1803
Luke Howard named the clouds in 1803 after keeping sky journals since he was 10 years old.
Luke Howard was an industrial chemist in London. He studied clouds as a hobby in the early 1800s. In his Essay on the Modification of Clouds, he gave the standard cloud formations the names we still use today. Cirrus is the Latin word fo…
