cirrostratus

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Definition of cirrostratus in English Turkish dictionary

sirostratüs

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sirrostratüs

SiRROSTRATUS

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Definition of cirrostratus in English English dictionary

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

{i} cloud formation containing ice crystals which appears high in the atmosphere

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a thin uniform layer of hazy cloud at high altitude

Cs

Hyphenation

cir·ro·stra·tus