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It's pretty obvious to most people who've seen it, but I'll explain it anyway, using a smaller piece of cloud pattern:
<span style='font-family:Courier'> ..oooo..
..oo....
....
..
.. .. ..oo..
..oo..oo..ooOO..
..oo..oo..OO@@oo..
........oo@@@@OOoo..
..OO@@OOOOoo..
..OOOOooooX...
..oooo....
....oo..
..oo....
....</span>
The '@' represents a heavy thunderstorm, the 'O' is rain, 'o' is heavy clouds, '.' is light clouds and the rest is clear sky. The 'X' represents my current location.
Thus, looking up into the sky you can see that there's a heavy thunderstorm to the north-west, with wisps of lighter cloud swirling outwards from it.
Those might give an adequate idea of the weather at your current location, but they're not going to provide any insight into what the rest of the sky looks like.
So, once more, how would you describe one of my cloud patterns using only words?
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