altostratus
IPA: ˈæɫtoʊstrˈætʌs
noun
- (physics, meteorology) A principal medium-level cloud type in the form of a gray or bluish (never white) sheet or layer of striated, fibrous, or uniform appearance.
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Examples of "altostratus" in Sentences
- Altostratus clouds can produce very light precipitation.
- Stratus formations at higher altitudes include altostratus and cirrostratus.
- It was a good blue one, with a few puffy cirrocumulus clouds, and some altostratus thrown in for contrast.
- High-altitude cirrus, cirrostratus and middle-altitude altostratus clouds are found well in advance of the front.
- With the thicker altostratus and nimbostratus clouds comes the rain, which is then followed by clear and warmer weather.
- Along the gently sloping warm front, the lifting of moist air produces first nimbostratus clouds followed by altostratus and cirrostratus.
- On this day, however, the sky, layered with thin altostratus clouds and smog, appeared to reflect human suffering and failed to awaken in Claude visions of paradise.
- Above 6,500 feet can be found altocumulus ("clumps or rolls") and altostratus (a "drab and featureless" haze), as well as the storm clouds nimbostratus ("dim, miserable") and cumulonimbus ("the shape of a blacksmith's anvil").
- Weather Phenomenon Prior to the Passing of the Front Contact with the Front After the Passing of the Front Temperature Cool Warming suddenly Warmer then leveling off Atmospheric Pressure Decreasing steadily Leveling off Slight rise followed by a decrease Winds South to southeast Variable South to southwest Precipitation Showers, snow, sleet or drizzle Light drizzle None Clouds Cirrus, cirrostratus, altostratus, nimbostratus, and then stratus Stratus, sometimes cumulonimbus Clearing with scattered stratus, sometimes scattered cumulonimbus
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