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altostratus

NOUN
  1. a stratus cloud at an intermediate altitude of 2 or 3 miles

How To Use altostratus In A Sentence

  • High-altitude cirrus, cirrostratus and middle-altitude altostratus clouds are found well in advance of the front. Air masses and frontal transitional zones
  • Snow can form in cumuliform clouds and also in stratiform clouds - altostratus and nimbostratus.
  • Along the gently sloping warm front, the lifting of moist air produces first nimbostratus clouds followed by altostratus and cirrostratus. Mid-latitude cyclone
  • 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 Air masses and frontal transitional zones
  • Altostratus and altocumulus are in the midrange, lie between one and a half and three miles above the sea. MY EMPIRE OF DIRT
  • From the ground this altostratus looks white or slightly blue and watery.
  • 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. La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
  • With the thicker altostratus and nimbostratus clouds comes the rain, which is then followed by clear and warmer weather. Sailing Fundamentals
  • It was a good blue one, with a few puffy cirrocumulus clouds, and some altostratus thrown in for contrast. Something Unpredictable
  • The grey layer looks like and should be an altostratus although the fronts look different in the tropical regions.
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