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UK
/ˌæltəkjˈuːmjʊləs/
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NOUN
- a cumulus cloud at an intermediate altitude of 2 or 3 miles
How To Use altocumulus In A Sentence
- By the time we had a task and were ready to rock the wind had backed off to only 10 km/h, and with the sun being blocked from wide spread altocumulus clouds conditions suddenly were barely soarable.
- Altostratus and altocumulus are in the midrange, lie between one and a half and three miles above the sea. MY EMPIRE OF DIRT
- Cirrocumulus has no shading (which altocumulus usually has), and because it is so much higher, the cloudlets of cirrocumulus are much smaller than those of altocumulus.
- It is caused by light shining through thin altocumulus, which causes the light to bend as it passes through the water droplets within the cloud.
- But altocumulus stratiformis can sometimes thicken and descend as nimbostratus, a dark and dreary cloud that often brings rain. Times, Sunday Times
- Since moving to the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains I have enjoyed frequent sightings of spectacular altocumulus standing lenticularis or lenticular cloud formations. Rich Wolf: Boulder UFOs Identified (Photos)
- Altocumulus Standing Lenticularis ASL are mid-level clouds that are the most common type of lenticularis, found between 8,000 and 20,000 feet. Rich Wolf: Boulder UFOs Identified (Photos)
- Altocumulus lacunosus. “An elusive prize for any cloud collector,” lacunosus clouds form when sinking pockets of air create holes in a cloud layer.
- The sun was just beginning to set in the distance, casting a hazy, pink glow over everything in sight as the altocumulus clouds slowly turned a soft orange.
- Above the surface location of the cold front, high altitude cirrostratus and middle altitude altocumulus clouds are common. Air masses and frontal transitional zones