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 [sîŕō-strā́təs, -străt́əs]
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Cirrostratus cloud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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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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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Cirrostratus clouds are very thin. The name cirrostratus means "curl" and "spread out" in Latin. Cirrostratus clouds are high altitude clouds. ...
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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: These sheet-like, thin clouds form above 18000 feet/5,5 km above sealevel. Cirrostratus clouds are so thin that the sun and moon can be seen clearly through the cloud. Sometimes these clouds are so thin that the only clue to their presence is a halo around the sun or moon.
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Pages in category "Cirrostratus clouds" ... Cirrostratus undulatus with other waves.JPG ... Close Cirrostratus stratiformis.JPG...
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Cloud Atlas -> Cirrostratus ... Cirrostratus (Cs) ... Cirrostratus: The Cirrostratus consists, like the Cirrus und Cirrocumulus, of very small ice crystals and does not lead to precipitation. It indicates with falling air pressure dirty weather.
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