cirrus

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

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

The wind-shear phenomenon can occur in wispy cirrus clouds or even clear air near thunderstorms, as differences in temperature and pressure create powerful currents of fast-moving air.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 19, 2022

There were high cumulus clouds and enough cirrus above them so that the old man knew the breeze would last all night.

From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway

Males, two, lodged in cavities on the under sides of the scuta; pouch-formed, with four unequal, rudimentary valves: no mouth: cirri not prehensile.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin

Body and cirri, either nearly white or pale purplish-lead colour, with the arms of the second, third, and fourth cirri, and pedicels of the fifth and sixth, more or less tinted with orange.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin

Its significance is of greater humidity and is the first real confirmation of the earlier promise of the cirri.

From Reading the Weather by Thomas Morris Longstreth

The pedicels of all the cirri are thickly covered with bristles.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin

The wind went down with the sun; silver-edged cirri lost their glitter, and swift was ...

From Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part by Augusta J. Evans Wilson