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cirrostratus
Wiktionary
n. (context meteorology English) A principal high-level cloud type appearing as a whitish veil, usually fibrous but sometimes smooth, which may totally cover the sky and which often produces halo phenomena, either partially or completely. Sometimes a banded aspect may appear, but the intervals between the bands are filled with thinner cloud veil. The edge of the veil of cirrostratus may be straight and clean-cut, but more often it is irregular and fringed with cirrus. Some of the ice crystals that comprise the cloud are large enough to fall and thereby produce a fibrous aspect. Cirrostratus occasionally may be so thin and transparent as to render it almost indiscernible, especially through haze or at night. At such times, the existence of a halo may be the only revealing feature, such as producing a halo around the moon. Abbreviated: Cs.
WordNet
n. a thin uniform layer of hazy cloud at high altitude [syn: cirrostratus cloud]
[also: cirrostrati (pl)]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "cirrostratus".
In the firmament high above them, quadrillions of chipmold spores formed a barely visible cirrostratus cloud made wavy by the steady nibbling of the subtropical jet stream.
Define the difference between cirrostratus, cirrocumulus, and stratocumulus and the type of weather or associated fronts related to each.
A cold, clear day with the wind fallen light and the clouds lifted to a thin-grey film of cirrostratus high in the sky.
Certain other facts, however -- for example, that a cumulus or cirrostratus cloud floated over the scene of the crime on the day of a particular homicide, or that the telephone wires in front of the house where the crime took place are made of aluminum or copper -- can be classified as nonessential.
Apart from a few high streaks of cirrostratus cloud, the morning sky was empty blue.
The columns and pillars were towering mountains of cumulus and cumulonimbus, their anvil-shaped bases disappearing in the darkening depths hundreds or thousands of kilometers below my floating kayak, their rounded summits billowing high into the halo-tinged cirrostratus hundreds or thousands of kilometers above me.