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cirrocumulus

[ UK /sˌɪɹəkjˈuːmjʊləs/ ]
NOUN
  1. a cloud at a high altitude consisting of a series of regularly arranged small clouds resembling ripples

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  • Around him, the mountains of southwest Montana towered, glistening peaks lit by snow at their higher altitudes, under a sky so blue it made your teeth ache and wads of cirrocumulus clouds piled high. A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set
  • The cirrocumulus formation is basically the same cloud as the stratocumulus and altocumulus but at higher altitude.
  • They are similar to the higher cirrocumulus, but are larger and have dark, shadowy sides.
  • These were cirrocumulus undulatus, known as a mackerel sky. Times, Sunday Times
  • The breeze was soft, but bracingly cool, and the deep blue of the sky was checkered with a high cirrocumulus web, glinting golden and magenta in the glancing sunlight.
  • A more accurate description might have been, "This cloud layer is in a condition between what we refer to as cirrocumulus and the one we call cirrus. Undefined
  • -- Night alternately clear and cloudy; cirrocumulus and cumulostratus moving northwards; no wind; beautifully mild for the time of year; in the morning some heavy clouds on the horizon. Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia
  • Cirrocumulus Standing Lenticularis CSL are the rarest type of lenticularis, appearing at over 24,000 feet. Rich Wolf: Boulder UFOs Identified (Photos)
  • Only at the highest levels—up to 45,000 feet—do we find the ice-crystal clouds cirrus ("like white locks of hair"), cirrocumulus ("like grains of rice") and cirrostratus ("a light, milky whitening of the blue"). Cirrus Concerns
  • So antecedently the box of basinal, the, and the cirrocumulus, i am abuzz to fitzgerald ventrally gelatinousness, sun, and miniature. Rational Review
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