What is the description of alto stratus clouds?

Answer 1

There is no "alto cirrus cloud". The ten major cloud types are:

Cirrus (high, wispy clouds. Look feathery)

Cirrocumulus (high lumpy clouds)

Cirrostratus (high sheety clouds with a halo around the sun. Indicates bad weather)

Altocumulus (lumpy clouds similar to cirrocumulus clouds, only lower)

Altostratus (Medium height sheety clouds. Make the Sun appear watery)

Cumulonimbus (thunderstorm clouds with "anvil" tops)

Cumulus ("Storybook clouds" or fair-weather clouds. They're the clouds you think of when you hear the word "cloud". Usually.)

Nimbostratus (A precipitating sheety cloud. Dull, dreary grey rain clouds pretty much.)

Stratocumulus (Low lumpy clouds.)

Stratus (fog)

Answer 2

Altostratus cloud, is a layer of cloud at an intermediate height of about 2400 to 6000 metres, (8000 to 20,000 feet).

Answer 3

Altostratus clouds are made up of ice crystals and snowflakes. These types of clouds have an appearance of gray flat sheets instead of the fluffy appearance displayed by other clouds.

Answer 4

Spread out kind of cloud tha looks like a gray blanket.

Answer 5

The sun can be seen through thin Alto Stratus, but thicker layers can be quite opaque.

Answer 6

Altostratus is a middle altitude cloud genus belonging to the stratiform physical category characterized by a generally uniform gray to bluish-gray sheet or layer.

Answer 7

The answer for what is the Latin meaning of the word alto stratus is highest and spread out

Answer 8

clouds are formes by water vaper and thousands of of tiny ice particles and shards

Answer 9

An altostratus is a medium-level cloud in the form of a grey or bluish sheet or layer of cloud.

Answer 10

it formes when cold air meets warm air