How To Use Altocumulus In A Sentence
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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.
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Altostratus and altocumulus are in the midrange, lie between one and a half and three miles above the sea.
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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.
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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.
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But altocumulus stratiformis can sometimes thicken and descend as nimbostratus, a dark and dreary cloud that often brings rain.
Times, Sunday Times
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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)
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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)
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Altocumulus lacunosus. “An elusive prize for any cloud collector,” lacunosus clouds form when sinking pockets of air create holes in a cloud layer.
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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.
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Above the surface location of the cold front, high altitude cirrostratus and middle altitude altocumulus clouds are common.
Air masses and frontal transitional zones
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Convection generally produces cumuliform clouds but may produce stratocumulus and altocumulus.
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And sure enough, rain soon followed last weekend after the altocumulus stratiformis appeared.
Times, Sunday Times
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Above them were long parallel streaks of altocumulus stratiformis coloured vivid pink from the setting sun.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is called altocumulus lenticularis - a lens-shaped cloud which people in New Zealand call hogs' backs.
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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").
Cirrus Concerns
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These were beautiful altocumulus castellanus, and their puffy towers gave warning of a turbulent atmosphere.
Times, Sunday Times
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He proposes they be called altocumulus undulatus asperatus.
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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").
Cirrus Concerns
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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").
Cirrus Concerns
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These two distinct layers of altocumulus cloud go by the somewhat cumbersome name of altocumulus stratiformis duplicatus.
Times, Sunday Times
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Since moving to the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains I have enjoyed frequent sightings of these spectacular altocumulus standing lenticularis or lenticular cloud formations.
Rich Wolf: Boulder UFOs Identified (Photos)
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Altocumulus stratiformis, forming at mid-levels in the atmosphere and signalling the eventual arrival of the occluded front discussed in Tuesday's blog.
BBC Blog Network
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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)
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Since moving to the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains I have enjoyed frequent sightings of these spectacular altocumulus standing lenticularis or lenticular cloud formations.
Rich Wolf: Boulder UFOs Identified (Photos)
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The cirrocumulus formation is basically the same cloud as the stratocumulus and altocumulus but at higher altitude.
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Jellyfish-shaped altocumulus clouds in the mid-atmosphere, trailing precipitation The impulse to collect can take strange forms.
Cirrus Concerns
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No altocumulus cloud anywhere in Earth's real atmosphere would be caught dead above 20,000 feet.
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This linear formation is called altocumulus stratiformis, which forms at a medium level in the sky.
Times, Sunday Times
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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").
Cirrus Concerns
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These two distinct layers of altocumulus cloud go by the somewhat cumbersome name of altocumulus stratiformis duplicatus.
Times, Sunday Times
