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Stratocumulus clouds are hybrids of layered stratus and cellular cumulus, i.e., individual cloud elements, characteristic of cumulo type clouds, clumped together in a continuous distribution, characteristic of strato type clouds. ... Also known as scud, fractus clouds can look ominous, but by themselves are not...
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Altostratus clouds are strato type clouds (see below) that possess a flat and uniform type texture in the mid levels. ... Fractus: Low, ragged stratiform or cumuliform cloud elements that normally are unattached to larger thunderstorm or cold frontal cloud bases. Also known as scud, fractus clouds can look ominous,
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Stratus, strato ... Visibility is often very poor below nimbostratus clouds as fog and fast-moving, ragged clouds, known as scud or stratus fractus clouds, form in the precipitation-cooled air below the cloud.
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Use fractus in a Sentence ... See web results for fractus ... Cumulus clouds...
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Billow clouds are created from instability associated with air flows having marked vertical shear and weak thermal stratification. The common name for this instability is Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. These instabilities are often visualize...
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Change Communis Common Cirro-stratus Communis Nebulosus Vittatus Cumulosus Cirro-cumulus Cirro-macula Nebulosus Alto-clouds Alto-stratus maculosus fractus Alto-strato-cumulus Alto-cumulus informis nebulosus Alto-clouds Alto-cumulus castellatus „ glomeratus „ communis stratiformis Stratus Stratus maculosus See also:
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600 ft scattered, measured ceiling 1,200 ft broken, 2,200 ft overcast, visibility 5 mi in very light freezing drizzle and light snow grains, wind 300 T at 5 kt, stratus fractus 3 tenths, strato cumulus 5 tenths, strato cumulus 2 tenths.
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Under what conditions can we expect stratus clouds and are these convective clouds? My second question is, why is it that in METAR's , we often see a first layer of stratus fractus clouds and a second of strato cummulus clouds?
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Water vapour in the air condenses to form cumulus and eventually thunderstorm (cumulonimbus) clouds. At sunset and sunrise, sunlight travels further through the atmosphere than at other times of the day. The atmosphere scatters the blue and green colours of the visible spectrum, leaving yellow, orange and/or red.
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