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Cloud of the day: Cirrostratus

When the clouds are thin and nearly opaque, it’s cirrostratus. When it's thicker and lower in the atmosphere, it is an ...
Researchers at Cornell University have developed the first-ever reflectance spectra — essentially a color-coded key — of the ...
The first report of this unusual cloud appeared in Weather magazine in 1948, in an article titled “Man-Made Cirrus?” The ...
The Moon has a little-known companion -- a lopsided cloud that never leaves its side. Scientists now know what the cloud is ...