Cirrostratus cloud
Encyclopedia : C : CI : CIR : Cirrostratus cloud
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|Above 6000 meters (20,000 feet)
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| m ( ft) |- |- class="hiddenStructure" ! Appearance | white veil |- |- class="hiddenStructure" ! Precipitation Cloud? | No |- |- class="hiddenStructure" ! Abbreviation | Cs |- | align=center colspan="2" style="white-space: nowrap;"| Cirrostratus clouds belong to a class characterized by a composition of ice crystals and often by the production of halo phenomena. They appear as whitish and usually somewhat fibrous veils, often covering the whole sky and sometimes so thin as to be hardly discernible. These clouds are of high altitude (20,000–40,000 ft or 6,000–12,000 m). Compare cirrostratus with other stratus cloud formations at lower altitude: altostratus, nimbostratus, and low altitude stratus clouds. Cirrostratus clouds are signs that precipitation will follow in the next 12 hours. External linkWikimedia Commons has media related to:
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