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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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Glossary

A very cold high pressure that originates over the Arctic Ocean.

A small, intense downdraft that produces damaging winds at the surface, typically lasting a few minutes and often associated...

A cold core high is a high-pressure system with cold air at its center. These systems are typically associated with clear...

A closed low, also known as a cut-off low, is a low-pressure system that is entirely isolated from the main atmospheric circulation...

The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...

A type of cloud consisting mostly of small particles such as ice particles.

A large body of air having similar horizontal temperature and moisture characteristics.

The mass of air surrounding the earth and bound to it more or less permanently by the earth's gravitational attraction.

A weather front where two air masses meet but neither is strong enough to move the other, often resulting in prolonged periods...

The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...