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Rain cloud: A colloquial, non-technical term denoting any cloud from which rain falls. In older cloud classification systems, any cloud from which rain or snow fell was termed “nimbus”.
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Tom Skilling is chief meteorologist at WGN-TV. His forecasts can be seen Monday through Friday on WGN-TV News at noon and 9 p.m.
WGN-TV meteorologists Steve Kahn, Richard Koeneman and Paul Dailey plus weather producer Bill Snyder contribute to this page.
