cirrus

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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

Sun halos are optical illusions created when ice crystals form in the correct shape in the upper atmosphere, usually accompanying thin, wispy cirrus clouds.

From New York Times

Those harmless-looking vapor trails sometimes spread out to form thin cirrus clouds.

From Seattle Times

Soot triggers the formation of contrails and 'contrail cirrus', which are line-shaped clouds produced by aircraft engine exhaust.

From Science Daily

The remaining, thinner cirrus clouds would allow more long-wave radiation emanating from Earth to escape to space.

From Scientific American