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STRATUS
1. Stratus nebulosus
Stratus nebulosus clouds appear as a featureless or nebulous veil
or layer of stratus clouds with no distinctive features or
structure.[4] They are found at low altitudes, and is a good sign of
atmospheric stability, which indicates continuous stable weather.
Stratus nebulosus may produce light drizzle, or flakes of snow
Opacity-based varieties[edit]
Stratus fractus are not divided into varieties, but stratus nebulosus
on the other hand, are divided into two. The Stratus opacus variety
appears as a nebulous or milky sheet of the nebulosus species, but
are opaque enough to block the sun from view.[4] Stratus
Translucidus is another variety of the nebulosus species. These
clouds are considered more thin than the opacus variety because this
cloud is rather translucent, allowing the position of the sun or moon
to be observed from earth's surface
2. Stratus opacus
Vezi pozele de la Stratus nebolosus.
3. Stratus translucidus
4. Stratus undulatus
Pattern-based variety[edit]
Stratus clouds only have one pattern-based variety. This is the
stratus undulatus variety. Mild undulations can be observed from
this cloud, only associated by the nebulosus species. Though rare,
this cloud formation is caused by disturbances on the gentle wind
shear. Stratus undulatus clouds are more common on stratus
stratocumulomutatus clouds where the wind is stronger as height
increases.[
5. Stratus fractus
Stratus fractus clouds on the other hand, appear with an irregular
shape, and forms with a clearly fragmented or ragged appearance.[4]
They mostly appear under the precipitation of major rain-bearing
clouds. These are the nimbostratus clouds, and the cumulonimbus
clouds, and are classified as pannus clouds. Stratus fractus can also
form beside mountain slopes, without the presence of nimbus clouds
(clouds that precipitate), and their color can be from dark grey to
almost white.
IV. STRATOCUMULUS
1. Stratocumulus stratiformis
6. Stratocumulus mammatus
V. NIMBOSTRATUS
Formation[edit]
Nimbostratus occurs along a warm front or occluded front
where the slowly rising warm air mass creates nimbostratus
along with shallower stratus clouds producing less rain, these
clouds being preceded by higher-level clouds such as
cirrostratus and altostratus.[9][10] Often, when an altostratus
cloud thickens and descends into lower altitudes, it will become
nimbostratus.[11]
Nimbostratus, unlike cumulonimbus, is not associated with
thunderstorms, however at an unusually unstable warm front
caused as a result of the advancing warm air being hot, humid
and unstable, cumulonimbus clouds may be embedded within
the usual nimbostratus. Lightning from an embedded
cumulonimbus cloud may interact with the nimbostratus but
only in the immediate area around it. In this situation with
lightning and rain occurring it would be hard to tell which type
of cloud was producing the rain from the ground, however
cumulonimbus tend to produce larger droplets and more
intense downpours. The occurrence of cumulonimbus and
nimbostratus together is uncommon, and usually only
nimbostratus is found at a warm front.
Nimbostratus pannus is an accessory cloud of nimbostratus
that forms as a ragged layer in precipitation below the main
cloud deck.[12]
Forecast[edit]