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What is Cirrostratus?

A cloud that develops from Cirrus, completely or partially covering the sky, creating a halo effect, thin, sheet-like, milky white, fibrous or vein-like.

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Meteorology is the scientific study of the atmosphere and weather processes. It involves observing, analyzing, and forecasting...

A thermodynamic change process in the system without any exchange of heat or transfer of energy between systems. This process...

Perhaps you have come across them, maybe you are seeing them for the first time. These clouds, known as wave clouds, resemble...

The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...

Although it is also used for light winds, it is the general name given to the daily cyclical winds that occur mostly between...

An image on the weather radar that is convex to the direction of movement and resembles an arc shape, caused by mesoscale...

In a severe storm, with a swirling motion in its left rear quadrant, a vertically rotating column of air, often seen with...

The lowest level of a given cloud or cloud layer in the atmosphere, relative to the observer's position above the ground.

A strong wind typically ranging from 34 to 40 knots (39 to 46 miles per hour) and often associated with rough seas and stormy...

An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...