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stratus cloud

NOUN
  1. a large dark low cloud

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  • Gray-brown stratus clouds in the upper atmosphere flew at high speed as though the planet was racked by a perpetual storm.
  • High-altitude cirrus, cirrostratus and middle-altitude altostratus clouds are found well in advance of the front. Air masses and frontal transitional zones
  • An altostratus cloud usually covers the whole sky and has a gray or blue-gray appearance.
  • Along the gently sloping warm front, the lifting of moist air produces first nimbostratus clouds followed by altostratus and cirrostratus. Mid-latitude cyclone
  • The turbulent air is cooled, and this causes condensation and consequently an extensive stratus cloud is often formed.
  • But don't confuse them with a simple stratus cloud clinging to a mountaintop. "Only a jaunty cloud hat" will do.
  • The first sign that this is occurring would be the sight of a bank of Cirrus, followed by a bank of medium level clouds, and then thicker stratus clouds.
  • -- Calm night; sky overcast with hazy cumulostratus clouds; an easterly breeze sprung up towards morning, making the air much colder. Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia
  • Gray-brown stratus clouds in the upper atmosphere flew at high speed as though the planet was racked by a perpetual storm.
  • I kept to my hands and knees, like a little drunk myself, creeping down the hallway under the stratus cloud of smoke, under the radar, until I found the door with the dark stairs going down. Babies
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