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Cirrostratus are sheet-like, high-level clouds composed of ice crystals. Though cirrostratus can cover the entire sky and be up to several thousand feet thick, they are relatively transparent, as the sun or the moon can easily be seen through them.
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Science question: What do cirrostratus clouds look like? they look like that ... Answers.com > Wiki Answers > Categories > Science > What do cirrostratus clouds look like?
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Cirrostratus clouds are thin, generally uniform clouds, composed of ice-crystals, capable of forming halos. They are usually located above 5.5 km . When thick enough to be seen, they are whitish, usu...
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; This is a photograph of cirrostratus clouds near Moab, Utah. Click on image for full size version (66K JPG); Courtesy of Anne Pharamond ... Cirrostratus clouds belong to the High Cloud (5000-13000m) group. They are sheetlike thin clouds that usually cover the entire sky.
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Cumulus: In Latin, this means "heap." Cumulus clouds look like a heap of cotton balls or whipped cream. ... The tiny prisms of ice in a cirrostratus layer can bend the sun's light. As a result, often you can see a halo or veil of rainbow colors around the sun. When stratus clouds are very thick, they become dark...
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These are Cumulus clouds and they are puffy. Cumulus clouds can look like animals or people. The other shape of clouds is pretty flat and straight - your plain old white bread clouds ... Cirrostratus are sheetlike, thin clouds that usually cover the entire sky. The sun or moon can shine through Cirrostratus clouds.
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Cirrocumulus clouds look like small white puff balls high in the sky. The puff balls can occur individually or as long rows. When the puffs are in rows, they give the cloud a rippling appearance that resembles the scales of a fish and distinguishes it from a cirrus or a cirrostratus cloud.
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Cirrostratus may cover the sky as a continuous sheet with no features, but it often has a fibrous look. The cloud is so thin it is almost transparent. You can see the sun or moon through it much more clearly than you can through altostratus, and this is the simplest way to tell one cloud from the other.
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Cirrostratus clouds look like thin sheets. They appear high in the sky and form a halo around the moon. Cirrostratus clouds indicate rain or snow within the next 24 hours. ... Altocumulus clouds are found in the middle of the sky. These clouds look like big, unconnected puffs of cotton and appear in the summer.
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