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I looked that up today in a book of word origins (sorry, I'm at home now
and don't have the citation!) They attribute the phrase to actual U.S.
Weather service jargon that catagorizes cloud formations into levels.
"cloud nine" is a type of cumulonimbus that you see on warm sunny summer
afternoons. These clouds frequently get up to 30,000 or 40,000 feet.
Very high. The book also said that a radio show, popular in the 1950s,
used the expression quite often and that was the reason the phrase came
into common useage.
Carol Mann Simpson csimpson@tenet.edu
Facilitator - Library Technology 214 882-7450
Mesquite (TX) Independent School District
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