cirrus
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The most likely explanation is the presence of thick but uneven water ice clouds, similar to cirrus clouds high in Earth's atmosphere -- an unexpected complication.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 22, 2026
Wind shear can occur in wispy cirrus clouds or even in clear air near thunderstorms, as differences in temperature and pressure create powerful currents of fast-moving air.
From Seattle Times ● May 21, 2024
The remaining, thinner cirrus clouds would allow more long-wave radiation emanating from Earth to escape to space.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 20, 2023
Brilliant red, orange and scarlet sunsets often take place in the presence of higher cirrus or altocumulus clouds instead of low-level clouds such as stratus or stratocumulus.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2023
It was still clear, but a thin, wispy scum of cirrus had spread across the upper atmosphere, and a dark line of squalls was visible just above the southwestern horizon.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
Pedicels of the cirri long; rami rather short; segments elongated, not protuberant.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
They are constructed like ordinary Cirripedia, and have a mouth, thorax and cirri, enclosed in a capitulum, supported on a peduncle of moderate length and narrow.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
Margarita, five to seven pairs of epipodial cirri with a pigment spot at base of each.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various
Finally, I may remark that the whole of the body and the cirri are capable of many diversified movements.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
Condensation in the whole body of the trade is usually in the form of turbidness or mistiness, a bank or incipient stratus, without cirri.
From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Thomas Belden Butler
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