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ice clouds
silky hair like appearance lines across a clear sky wispy horizontal bands |
cirrus
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high cloud
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ice clouds
sheets or layers ripples like sand |
cirrocumulus
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cirro
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transparent
white and ful of strength in appearance not dense enough to blur the outline of sun or moon |
cirrostratus
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cirro
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white, may be gray in flat layers, masses or rolls
mostly in small elements darker than cirrocumulus |
altocumulus
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alto
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sheets of gray/blue
sun looks as if through frosted glass |
altostratus
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alto
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water cloud
masses of wavy rolls in extended sheets frontal edge of a cold front |
stratocumulus
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strato
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water cloud
light to dark gray appear in sheets diffuse from precipitation precipitation is lengthy |
nimbostratus
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nimbo
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light to dark gray
uniform in appearance drizzle, light rain or snow may last several days |
stratus
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low
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water clouds
flat on the bottom separated, detached in dome shapes |
cumulus
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puffy
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heavy, dark, towering
raged cloud formation below-scuds local-bring short storms when preceding a cold fromt, precip lasts longer thunder and lightning |
cumulonimbus
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harry potter
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