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This project came from students’ desire to learn more about the clouds that formed in the sky above our GLOBE atmospheric station from January 1st, 2019 to January 1st, 2020 at astronomical noon. In the research project, we were interested in which types of clouds most often formed in the sky above our station, ie which types of clouds we observed the least in the sky. Our hypothesis is that we read the most cirrus and cumulus in the sky in more than 50% of cases and we noticed the least cumulonimbus in less than 10% of cases. We observed and determined the types of clouds for 12 months, from January 1st, 2019 to January 1st, 2020. The determination of cloud types at the atmospheric station was carried out according to GLOBE protocols seven times a week at astronomical noon which means that we performed 365 measurements over a period of twelve months. By analyzing the data of the observed cloud types, the percentage of clouds is cirrus 16%, cumulus 16%, altostratus 12%, nimbostratus 10%, cirrostratus 10%, stratocumulus 9%, stratus 9%, altocumulus 3%, cirocumulus 2%, cumulonimbus 1%, none clouds 13%. We confirmed the hypothesis that in the sky above our GLOBE atmospheric station from January 1st, 2019 to January 1st, 2020, measured at astronomical noon has the most read clouds of cirrus and cumulus, but not in more than 50% of cases but in 32% of cases. We also confirmed that cumulonimbus clouds were the least read in less than 10% of cases.