The Patriot Act increases the government's power to spy in four areas. 1  1. Expanded access to personal records held by third parties. 2  2. More secret searches. 3  3. Expansion of the intelligence exception in wiretap law. 4  4. Expansion of the pen register exception in wiretap law.
Nimbus is a Latin word meaning cloud or rain storm. Nimbo is a prefix and nimbus is a suffix. An example would be: Nimbostratus, a precipitating cloud.
, I'm no cloud expert, but I know some things about clouds. What is called a nimbus cloud is a cloud that produces precipitation. In the warmer months (or in places where it's warm year round), precipitation that falls from these clouds is primarily rain. But, in the colder months (or in places where it's cold year round), precipitation is primarily snow, though other forms of icy precipitation may fall from nimbus clouds.