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A stratocumulus cloud is a type of low-lying, gray, thickly layered cloud that appears lumpy. It can sometimes create light precipitation.
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What is stratocumclus?
Stratocumulus is a stratiform cloud, which forms under a temperature inversion, or it can result from the spreading out of convective cloud (such as decaying cumulonimbus cells).
What is low lying cloud?
Low clouds are in the stratus group, consisting of stratus, nimbostratus, and stratocumulus. These clouds range up to 6,500-feet. Stratus clouds often resemble fog, and mist sometimes falls from the clouds.
Stratocumulus clouds are associated with what kind of fronts?
cold fronts
What kind of clouds form at lower altitudes?
stratocumulus, stratus, and nimbostratus. i think there is one more though..
What type clouds are made of ice crystals?
Some prefixes of cloud names describe the height of the cloud bases. Some clouds' names combine the altitude prefix with the term status or cumulus. The answer for the question is Cirrostratus.
What term is used to describe a rainy cloud?
stratocumulus
What do you call a low cloud?
There are Three dirrerent low level clouds Stratocumulus, Stratus, and Cumulus. stratocumulus
What are some cloud combinations?
Cirrostratus Altostratus Stratocumulus Cumulonimbus Cirrocumulus Altocumulus Nimbostratus Stratocumulus Cumulonimbus
Which cloud group do stratocumulus clouds belong in?
middle
What level is stratocumulus located at?
It is a high level xxx cloud
What type of cloud looks like a thick blanket?
Stratocumulus
What type of cloud forms a dull blanket and gives drizzle?
stratocumulus cloud
Identify the term indicated by this description a low level cloud?
stratocumulus and a High level cloud is a cirrostratus
What is an example of a flat cloud and a puffy cloud?
temperture
How do Stratocumulus clouds occur?
Of warm moisture and cool moisture giving the cloud.
What does a stratocumulus cloud look like?
The Latin stratus, "spread out" or "layer", and the Latin cumulus, "clumped" or "heaped", were combined to describe this class of cloud, which is a high layer of thick, dark clouds. Clouds were first classified by the English scientist Luke Howard in the early 1800's. (see link)
What is stratocumclus?
Stratocumulus is a stratiform cloud, which forms under a temperature inversion, or it can result from the spreading out of convective cloud (such as decaying cumulonimbus cells).
