cirrus clouds sometimes show that the weather may be ready to change. From LearnThat.org.
We were holding formation real well in cirrus clouds when the division leader "chickened out" just north of Hamburg and gave the recall. From Wordnik.com. [THE BOMBING OF SWITZERLAND] Reference
"cirrus," and that a cirrus is the subject of a chapter to itself. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
The denser parts are called molecular clouds while the more diffuse parts are 'cirrus'. From Wordnik.com. [Slugger O'Toole] Reference
The cirrus protrudes into a common genital atrium. From Wordnik.com. [Platyhelminthes] Reference
cirrus and alto cirrus clouds over Tysons Corner, Va. From Wordnik.com. [A cirrus and contrail display] Reference
They stay in the sky and end up looking like cirrus clouds. From Wordnik.com. [Chemtrails] Reference
The cirrus clouds in question usually come before a warm front. From Wordnik.com. [Morning Ring Around the Sun] Reference
We were in violation of cumulus clouds, of lightning and cirrus. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 15, 2009] Reference
We will not say whether the old masters painted this cirrus or not. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
High altitude cirrus clouds are found well in advance of the front. From Wordnik.com. [Air masses and frontal transitional zones] Reference
Threads of cirrus touched the heavens and the sea was calm as a lake. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
By Wednesday afternoon, cumulus clouds formed with the cirrus clouds. From Wordnik.com. [A cirrus and contrail display] Reference
Warm (S. E. light); cirrus bank N. W.; noon (S.) thickening in N. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence] Reference
The moon was just overhead, ringed round with a field of cirrus clouds. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Impression of the Philippines] Reference
MARCIANO: Refractions through ice crystals which are high cirrus clouds. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 6, 2006] Reference
You see some of those high, thin cirrus clouds streaming across midtown. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 22, 2009] Reference
(See cirrus clouds, cumulus clouds, nimbus clouds, and stratus clouds.) 1. From Wordnik.com. [clouds] Reference
Poets like the cirrus clouds, or the dainty mackerel sky of an altocumulus. From Wordnik.com. [8/30/02 Tessa flew to Los] Reference
The western sky was slashed with crimson and purple streaks of cirrus cloud. From Wordnik.com. [Sagittarius Whorl]
The afternoon sky over Tysons Corner with cumulus and cirrus clouds together. From Wordnik.com. [A cirrus and contrail display] Reference
In the cirrus there is present a tendency to expand; in the stratus to contract. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
The sky is blindingly bright — a few cirrus wisps in an unbroken stretch of blue. From Wordnik.com. [Rittenhouse Square: excert from work-in-progress] Reference
Hmmm. The sky was pretty when I drove in this morning -- with those high cirrus clouds. From Wordnik.com. [readersguide Diary Entry] Reference
That last function is the focus of a new software war, to be waged in the cirrus and strata. From Wordnik.com. [Ray Ozzie Wants to Push Microsoft Back Into Startup Mode] Reference
It had faded behind a haze of high cirrus cloud by midmorning, but we all knew it was there. From Wordnik.com. [Spin] Reference
Far to the eastward the light of the rising sun tinted the cirrus clouds above with a rosy hue. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"] Reference
The cirrus clouds came from this mess and they were heading over the Kennedy Space Center there. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 15, 2009] Reference
WOLF: ... pose more of a threat, say, than your cirrus clouds, pose more than just your basic cumulus clouds. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 2, 2006] Reference
The break in the clouds now was practically overhead; to the west there was blue sky with a little light cirrus. From Wordnik.com. [The Rainbow and the Rose]
When cirrus clouds overspread the sky, they are often thick enough to obscure the stars in some places but not in others. From Wordnik.com. [Weather sayings: Do they have any value?] Reference
The next morning was bright and almost clear; but a few thin cirrus clouds implied the possibility of another change in the weather. From Wordnik.com. [Natives of Space]
But they're going to try it at 8: 00 in the morning, which there may be fewer cirrus clouds up there in the top layers of the atmosphere. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 27, 2009] Reference
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