Luke Howard the Namer of Clouds

Like Howard was a manufacturing chemist and amateur meteorologist. He was  known as the Namer of Clouds or the Father of Meteorology because he kept constant records of the weather. The beginning of the nineteenth century was a time when scientists started classifying and sorting things they observed, studied or discovered. Clouds were thought to be too changeable to categorize. Luke Howard, in a paper titled, "On the Modifications of Clouds," classified clouds based on three simple categories. They were cirrus, cumulus, and stratus. Later, he introduced a new term and combined the names of the basic cloud types. They became four other categories: nimbus, cirrostratus, cirrocumulus, and cumulostratus.