How To Use Stratus In A Sentence
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The storm was cloaked like a hidden monster behind a stratiform cloud veil (nimbostratus) with a little fractus in the foreground.
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Howard's full range of terms was: cirrus (for clouds made up of ‘parallel, flexuous, or dividing fibres’); cumulus (for convex or conical heaps, building upwards from a horizontal base); and stratus, horizontal sheets of 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.
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Probari nequit illorum pseudopoliticorum opipio, qui ad jura regalia magistratus remotionem ministrorum pertinere censent.
The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)
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This morning heavy clouds of cumulostratus promised more rain, and gave
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
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Lesser values can be recorded in between the main storm cores and from the nimbostratus.
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Pulchricoma Venus, and Cupid himself was yellow haired, in aurum coruscante et crispante capillo, like that neat picture of Narcissus in Callistratus; for so
Anatomy of Melancholy
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The gray layer of stratus has returned, contingent with the cook-fires of the enemy.
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Above 6,500 feet can be found altocumulus ("clumps or rolls") and altostratus (a "drab and featureless" haze), as well as the storm clouds nimbostratus ("dim, miserable") and cumulonimbus ("the shape of a blacksmith's anvil").
Cirrus Concerns
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High-altitude cirrus, cirrostratus and middle-altitude altostratus clouds are found well in advance of the front.
Air masses and frontal transitional zones
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The sky, a gloomy purple, was overlapped by stratus sheets of blue-black clouds.
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Cirro Stratus condensed to form one giant mist roughly the size of Japan.
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[Footnote 355: This sudden change from the third to the second person, in speaking of Nicostratus, is a characteristic example of Boccaccio's constant abuse of the figure enallage in his dialogues.] [Footnote 356: _i. e._ those eyes.]
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
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Gentleman, gracefull of person, excellent in speech, and every way as active as no man could be more: his name Pyrrhus, highly affected of Nicostratus, and more intimately trusted then all the rest.
The Decameron
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For the town is in the midst of a marsh formed by the river Achelous, which, rising in Mount Pindus and passing first through the territory of the Dolopians, Agraeans, and Amphilochians, and then through the Acarnanian plain, at some distance from its mouth flows by the city of Stratus and finds an exit into the sea near Oeniadae: an expedition in winter is thus rendered impossible by the water.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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Most likely, it was one of the 10 great species of clouds, beginning with low- altitude cumulus ("cotton-wool puffs"), stratocumulus ("a low layer or patch of cloud") and stratus (a "gray overcast layer").
Cirrus Concerns
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Weather Phenomenon Prior to the Passing of the Front Contact with the Front After the Passing of the Front Temperature Cool Warming suddenly Warmer then leveling off Atmospheric Pressure Decreasing steadily Leveling off Slight rise followed by a decrease Winds South to southeast Variable South to southwest Precipitation Showers, snow, sleet or drizzle Light drizzle None Clouds Cirrus, cirrostratus, altostratus, nimbostratus, and then stratus Stratus, sometimes cumulonimbus Clearing with scattered stratus, sometimes scattered cumulonimbus
Air masses and frontal transitional zones
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An altostratus cloud usually covers the whole sky and has a gray or blue-gray appearance.
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Along the gently sloping warm front, the lifting of moist air produces first nimbostratus clouds followed by altostratus and cirrostratus.
Mid-latitude cyclone
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Last, there is the old hypothesis of Wolf: "Pisistratus" (about
Homer and His Age
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Inside is the chronometer-certified Breitling Calibre 32 movement, and the watch can be purchased with a volcano black, Air Force blue, tungsten gray or stratus silver dial.
A Hot Half Dozen for 2010
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The turbulent air is cooled, and this causes condensation and consequently an extensive stratus cloud is often formed.
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But don't confuse them with a simple stratus cloud clinging to a mountaintop. "Only a jaunty cloud hat" will do.
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Weather Phenomenon Prior to the Passing of the Front Contact with the Front After the Passing of the Front Temperature Cool Warming suddenly Warmer then leveling off Atmospheric Pressure Decreasing steadily Leveling off Slight rise followed by a decrease Winds South to southeast Variable South to southwest Precipitation Showers, snow, sleet or drizzle Light drizzle None Clouds Cirrus, cirrostratus, altostratus, nimbostratus, and then stratus Stratus, sometimes cumulonimbus Clearing with scattered stratus, sometimes scattered cumulonimbus
Air masses and frontal transitional zones
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Mr. Leaf fills up the gap in the sense, after "Pisistratus" thus, "for it was he
Homer and His Age
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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.
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Stratus claims to be the first fault-tolerant system vendor to ship the Unix System V.4 multiprocessing operating system.
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Passing over the river Achelous they marched through Acarnania, leaving the city and garrison of Stratus on the right hand, and the rest of Acarnania on their left.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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In summer, Arctic Ocean packice cover is incomplete and heavily puddled, which maintains a constant layer of stratus and stratocumulus cloud cover.
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Above 6,500 feet can be found altocumulus ("clumps or rolls") and altostratus (a "drab and featureless" haze), as well as the storm clouds nimbostratus ("dim, miserable") and cumulonimbus ("the shape of a blacksmith's anvil").
Cirrus Concerns
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-- 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
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Built on a rise to command views of the valley at its foot, it looked dour and inhospitable and threatening even on sunny days, and could chill the soul under nimbostratus.
They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff
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= André cites _Dig_ XXII v 22 'curent magistratus cuiusque loci _testari_ uolentibus et se ipsos et alios testes uel
The Last Poems of Ovid
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Above 6,500 feet can be found altocumulus ("clumps or rolls") and altostratus (a "drab and featureless" haze), as well as the storm clouds nimbostratus ("dim, miserable") and cumulonimbus ("the shape of a blacksmith's anvil").
Cirrus Concerns
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It is characterized by a sky covered by a layer of stratus or stratocumulus which tends to persist because of the weak atmospheric circulation.
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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.
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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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Just to establish my historical track record I will quote one of the great epicures whose advice has survived for 2,350 years, Archestratus of Gela in Sicily.
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So how come a waiter in a back-alley doss-house — albeit a regular stopover Phineus used for his clients at Delphi — still knew of Polystratus?
See Delphi and Die
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What Erasistratus made out was that, at the roots of the aorta and the pulmonary artery (Figure 1) there were valves, which opened in the direction indicated by the arrows; and, on the other hand, that at the junction of what he called the veins with the heart there were other valves, which also opened again in the direction indicated by the arrows.
Lectures and Essays
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Chaetodon capistratus is a browser who feeds on anthozoans preferring hexacoral such as scleractinians, anemones, and zoantharians.
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Cirri and cirrostratus clouds have been very prevalent during the day, and cumulostratus during the night.
Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia
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In Roman times, Philostratus gives an account of the trial of Apollonius of Tyana, (16) accused of human hepatoscopy by sacrificing a boy in the practice of magic arts against the Emperor.
The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913
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Where enough light shows through cirrostratus clouds to create shadows, it does not with altostratus.
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About 600 kilometers ahead of the front, nimbostratus clouds occur.
Air masses and frontal transitional zones
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In the 1556 edition of his _De rebus mathematicis, hactenus desideratis, Libri IIII_, published at Paris, the subtitle is: _Quibus inter cætera, Circuli quadratura Centum modis, & suprà, per eundem Orontium recenter excogitatis, demonstratus_, so that he kept up his efforts until his death.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)
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In Roman times, Philostratus gives an account of the trial of Apollonius of Tyana,16 accused of human hepatoscopy by sacrificing a boy in the practice of magic arts against the Emperor.
The Evolution of Modern Medicine
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As of yesterday AM we were experiencing a so called southerly surge, bringing a thick marine layer and good stratus intrusion.
Exponential Growth in Physical Systems #2 « Climate Audit
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This sounds more like a wake than a new deal administration, except for the party-time swearing-in festivities that do absolutely nothing to change the stratus-quo. —
Pelosi Cites Tough Challenges Ahead - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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Were you a native of Greece, where to exhibit in the public games [e] is an honourable employment; and if the gods had bestowed upon you the force and sinew of the athletic Nicostratus [f]; do you imagine that I could look tamely on, and see that amazing vigour waste itself away in nothing better than the frivolous art of darting the javelin, or throwing the coit?
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements
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The low-lying stratus, stratocumulus, cumulus, nimbostratus, and cumulonimbus are where all the action is.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT
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For a time he was also the brother-in-law of the Athenian tyrant, Peisistratus, who seized power three times before finally establishing a stable and apparently benevolent dictatorship.
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A high and light layer of stratus obscured the sun but the visibility overall was excellent.
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The cloud most suited to halo formation is cirrostratus, which is most commonly observed well ahead of a developing frontal system.
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Philostratus ranks as something of an arbiter of sophistic tastes and values; he is also an index of sophistic shortcomings.
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-- 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
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You were probably looking at the sun or moon through a layer of altostratus clouds.
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Pisistratus," whispered my father at last, and I stole near, hushing my breath, -- "Pisistratus, if your mother were here!
The Caxtons — Complete
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Above 6,500 feet can be found altocumulus ("clumps or rolls") and altostratus (a "drab and featureless" haze), as well as the storm clouds nimbostratus ("dim, miserable") and cumulonimbus ("the shape of a blacksmith's anvil").
Cirrus Concerns
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High-altitude cirrus, cirrostratus and middle-altitude altostratus clouds are found well in advance of the front.
Air masses and frontal transitional zones
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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
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A shelf of stratus clouds appeared just to the south and for a while it wasn't clear this was the reason for the call of zero lift.
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The basic cloud forms are cumulus, which are heaped clouds; stratus, which are layer clouds; and cirrus, which are wispy.
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After sunrise, cirrostratus clouds began to pass over from west to east, gradually becoming more dense, and assuming the form of cumulostratus.
Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia
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Coligny, and fawned upon tyrants to such an extent that Anacephorus said of Pisistratus: “His urine attracts the bees.”
Les Miserables
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As you pause for yet another splendid view of the lake, you can admire the blue blossoms of squaw carpet, Ceanothus prostratus, or later in the season see shocking purple and pink beardtongues, Penstamon davidsonii and rupicola.
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The basic cloud forms are cumulus, which are heaped clouds; stratus, which are layer clouds; and cirrus, which are wispy.
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When cirrostratus clouds are disturbed by planes or strong winds, the droplets can freeze instantly or evaporate, the latter of which will form the hole.
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High-altitude clouds—cirrus, cirrocumulus, and cirrostratus—reside between three and seven miles above sea level.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT
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It was a good blue one, with a few puffy cirrocumulus clouds, and some altostratus thrown in for contrast.
Something Unpredictable
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By comparing model simulation with an observed precipitation formed by stratus cloud system, the new scheme shows the improvement of prediction precipitation.
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Yeah, I know I last spoke of Chris when I was calling Trish Stratus from his house.
The Hardcore Diaries
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Above the surface location of the cold front, high altitude cirrostratus and middle altitude altocumulus clouds are common.
Air masses and frontal transitional zones
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He removed his sunglasses, squinted as the first line of nimbostratus occluded the sun.
FLOATING CITY
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Between the nimbostratus clouds and the surface location of the warm front, low-altitude stratus clouds are found.
Air masses and frontal transitional zones
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The low-lying stratus, stratocumulus, cumulus, nimbostratus, and cumulonimbus are where all the action is.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT
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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
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Erasistratus assigns it to the womb’s being more callous or more carneous, thinner or smaller, than nature does require.
Essays and Miscellanies
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One of Clams Casino's best tracks – one of the tracks of the year, in my opinion – is I'm God, a beautiful cirrostratus of a song that Lil B ended up rapping over, ruining its delicate charms in the process.
Tim Jonze's On Shuffle: Rap
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Well, it is quite light in colour to be a nimbostratus but precipitation all day long in connection with a weather front depicts the cloud.
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Philostratus indeed alludes to this: the new fire, he says, is distributed especially ‘to the craftsmen who have to do with fire’, i.e. to potters and blacksmiths.
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Rain and snow often accompany the development of nimbostratus clouds.
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Most likely, it was one of the 10 great species of clouds, beginning with low- altitude cumulus ("cotton-wool puffs"), stratocumulus ("a low layer or patch of cloud") and stratus (a "gray overcast layer").
Cirrus Concerns
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The low-lying stratus, stratocumulus, cumulus, nimbostratus, and cumulonimbus are where all the action is.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT
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This sounds more like a wake than a new deal administration, except for the party-time swearing-in festivities that do absolutely nothing to change the stratus-quo. —
Pelosi Cites Tough Challenges Ahead - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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The sky was partially overcast with high cumulostratus clouds, and a light breeze blew from the east, but nothing to indicate a thunderstorm in any direction.
Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia
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When Haymes explained how the postcards would be displayed in the gallery, in patches ranging from the walls to the ceiling, almost like clouds, cumulus in places, stratus in others, most agreed the project not only had potential but could actually mirror something about the human condition.
Imbecilogram
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Overcast skies (typically 7-8 okta of stratus) reduced exposures by a mean of 54%.
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Philostratus in turn described Andros as a land of Cockaigne for inebriates.
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Pisistratus," said my father, "you reason by synecdoche, -- ornamental, but illogical;" and therewith, resolved to hear no more, my father rose and retreated into his study.
The Caxtons — Complete
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The grey layer looks like and should be an altostratus although the fronts look different in the tropical regions.
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There are three main groups of clouds: cumulous, cirrus and stratus.
Cloudy
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This morning heavy clouds of cumulostratus promised more rain, and gave a cool day for the last effort of the jaded animals, which the driver doubted could not be driven much farther.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
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Whereat Nicostratus marvelled not a little; and: -- "Pyrrhus," quoth he, "I verily believe thou dreamest.
The Decameron, Volume II
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In summer, Arctic Ocean packice cover is incomplete and heavily puddled, which maintains a constant layer of stratus and stratocumulus cloud cover.
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However in winter low stratus or fog could persist for days, or even weeks in extreme cases.
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Stratosphere air contains little water vapor or dust; only wispy cirrostratus clouds streak the distant sky.
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It was a good blue one, with a few puffy cirrocumulus clouds, and some altostratus thrown in for contrast.
Something Unpredictable
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With the thicker altostratus and nimbostratus clouds comes the rain, which is then followed by clear and warmer weather.
Sailing Fundamentals
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But altocumulus stratiformis can sometimes thicken and descend as nimbostratus, a dark and dreary cloud that often brings rain.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not in gray and grumpy nimbostratus, nor fine feathered cirrus, but in a fair weather cumulus blanket and the sun beams like knitting needles that pierced it, the ends of which, I was sure, illuminated some somber earthly occasion - corporeal cessation.
On A Trans-Atlantic Flight
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Halos form when light from the sun or moon is refracted by ice crystals associated with thin, high-level clouds (like cirrostratus clouds).
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On this day, however, the sky, layered with thin altostratus clouds and smog, appeared to reflect human suffering and failed to awaken in Claude visions of paradise.
La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
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They should all survive the winter, apart from the Vietnamese coriander, so come autumn whip that out and replace with another herb that's great for winter cooking – a prostrate rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis 'Prostratus'), for example, would be ideal.
Window box ideas
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Pisistratus," said my father, softly, "I fear you have forgotten the saffron bag.
The Caxtons — Volume 07
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Automotive Industries recently was shown a more potent Stratus, stripped of its chrome accents but also devoid of any wings or air dams.
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Unless you count the fact that they can be cumulus, stratus, cirrus, or nimbus.
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From the ground this altostratus looks white or slightly blue and watery.
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Altostratus and altocumulus are in the midrange, lie between one and a half and three miles above the sea.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT
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What Erasistratus made out was that, at the roots of the aorta and the pulmonary artery (Fig. 1) there were valves, which opened in the direction indicated by the arrows; and, on the other hand, that at the junction of what he called the veins with the heart there were other valves, which also opened again in the direction indicated by the arrows.
Essays
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But the sky ... beautiful layers of cloud: cirrus, cumulus, stratus lying in runs from horizon to horizon.
Beach Reading
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Dion Chrysostom, Herodes Atticus, Aristides, Lucian, and Philostratus the Elder belong to the flourishing period of this second school of sophists, a period which extends over the entire second century.
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High-altitude clouds—cirrus, cirrocumulus, and cirrostratus—reside between three and seven miles above sea level.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT
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Weather Phenomenon Prior to the Passing of the Front Contact with the Front After the Passing of the Front Temperature Cool Warming suddenly Warmer then leveling off Atmospheric Pressure Decreasing steadily Leveling off Slight rise followed by a decrease Winds South to southeast Variable South to southwest Precipitation Showers, snow, sleet or drizzle Light drizzle None Clouds Cirrus, cirrostratus, altostratus, nimbostratus, and then stratus Stratus, sometimes cumulonimbus Clearing with scattered stratus, sometimes scattered cumulonimbus
Air masses and frontal transitional zones
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Pisistratus," said he gravely, and looking round him, "your mother!
The Caxtons — Complete
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The type of clouds most often found in the high level étage are cirrus, cirrocumulus and cirrostratus.
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Along the gently sloping warm front, the lifting of moist air produces first nimbostratus clouds followed by altostratus and cirrostratus.
Mid-latitude cyclone
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Whereat Nicostratus beeing angerly moved, she (to appease his distaste) pleasantly thus spake.
The Decameron
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Snow can form in cumuliform clouds and also in stratiform clouds - altostratus and nimbostratus.
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Pisistratus," said my father one evening, as he arranged his notes before him and rubbed his spectacles, "Pisistratus, a great library is an awful place!
The Caxtons — Complete
