Cirrus (meteorology)


A cirriform cloud in the form of thin, white featherlike patches or narrow bands. Cirrus clouds have a fibrous and/or silky sheen. Large ice crystals often trail downward for a considerable vertical distance in fibrous, slanted, or irregularly curved wisps called mare's tails.


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