@mo Certain cloud types/formations have different names! One that looks like layers or a bunch of similar or different sized pancakes is a silo cloud. It is usually a tall cloud that looks like layers or pancake layers or bumpy layers stacked vertically. There is no such thing as a horizontal silo cloud. It's nothing to do with virtual anything and only a shape of cloud that's extremely uncommon in the South and Western regions of the United States but not unheard of, & is most oft Midwest