Sunset on Fort Myers Beach, Florida Postcard

"Sunset on Fort Myers Beach, Florida" by Catherine Sherman. A blanket of cirrocumulus clouds adds to the beauty of a sunset on Fort Myers Beach, which is on the Gulf of Mexico. Cirrocumulus (Cc) is a composite of the Latin cirrus, which means wisp or curl, and cumulus, which means small heap. Cirrocumulus is a member of the ten fundamental cloud types (or cloud genera). Cirrocumuli are high-level clouds appearing as a formation of small masses of white or pale blue, fleecy clouds in a globular, wavelike, rippled pattern, usually in regularly arranged groupings.