Hello, and I apologize if this isn't the right place to ask this question.
Where I live, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, the map and cross-section often show the asterisk (*) symbol for convective clouds, even though I frequently observe stratus clouds. How do you determine that there are convective clouds and not another type of cloud?
For example, today Meteoblue says there are convective clouds, but the reality is that there are stratus clouds.
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