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

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

Enjoy it while you can: In a few million years, the nebula will be gone, evaporated by its fierce stellar progeny like a fleecy windblown cirrus cloud on a summer afternoon,

From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2022

He looked at the sky and saw the white cumulus built like friendly piles of ice cream and high above were the thin feathers of the cirrus against the high September sky.

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

E, Side view, later stage and with cirri extended.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various

The cirri disappeared by degrees, and the cumuli towered up on the horizon in colossal masses.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Karl Ritter von Scherzer

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

In some of the cirri, several of the basal segments are soldered together.

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

The cirri or tentacles, of which three or four pairs are present, are capable of being protruded, and the minute larva swims by means of the ciliary action they produce.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various