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Cirrus clouds are at a high altitude.
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Is a cirrus a high or low cloud?
Cirrus clouds are high-altitude clouds.
Do Cirrus clouds often form at very low altitudes?
Cirrus clouds are high altitude clouds occurring between 17,000 and 40,000 feet
Cirrus clouds appear at low to high altitudes?
just high altitudes
What are feather like clouds called?
High, wispy clouds are generally categorized as cirrus clouds.
What are the types of clouds on Earth?
The three main types of clouds are - High Clouds (Cirrus) Middle Clouds (Nimbus) Low clouds(Stratus)
What are feathery high clouds?
Cirrus clouds are thin, wispy clouds usually formed at high altitudes.
Are cirrus low or high?
Cirrus clouds are high-level clouds. They form at altitudes above 20,000 feet (6,000 meters) in the Earth's atmosphere and are typically composed of ice crystals. These clouds appear thin, wispy, and high in the sky and are often associated with fair weather or the approach of a warm front.
Can you put the clouds in lowest to highest order?
low clouds = stratus middle clouds = altostratus high clouds = cirrus vertical development clouds = cumulus
Can cirrus clouds form snow?
Cirrus clouds are high enough to be at a low enough temperature for the water droplets to form into ice crystals. However, Cirrus clouds are not precipitation clouds, so no snow or rain can fall from them. The clouds that can cause snow to fall in the right conditions are Nimbostratus and Cumulonimbus clouds.
What word describes high thin wispy clouds?
The most usual form of high-level clouds are thin and often wispy CIRRUS clouds. Cirrus clouds are usually found at heights greater than 20,000 feet. Cirrus clouds are composed of ice crystals that originate from the freezing of supercooled water droplets.
What are the names of clouds in each cloud level?
Noctilucent clouds are the highest and least understood. Cirrus and cirrostratus are the high-type clouds. Any high cloud will have the prefix "cirr".
What kind of clouds that are high in the sky?
cirrus clouds
