Definitions for cirrus cloud
cir·rus cloud

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1. cirrus, cirrus cloudnoun

   a wispy white cloud (usually of fine ice crystals) at a high altitude (4 to 8 miles)

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1. Cirrus cloud

   Cirrus (cloud classification symbol: Ci) is a genus of high cloud made of ice crystals. Cirrus clouds typically appear delicate and wispy with white strands. Cirrus are usually formed when warm, dry air rises, causing water vapor deposition onto rocky or metallic dust particles at high altitudes. Globally, they form anywhere between 4,000 and 20,000 meters (13,000 and 66,000 feet) above sea level, with the higher elevations usually in the tropics and the lower elevations in more polar regions. Cirrus clouds can form from the tops of thunderstorms and tropical cyclones and sometimes predict the arrival of rain or storms. Although they are a sign that rain and maybe storms are on the way, cirrus themselves drop no more than falling streaks of ice crystals. These crystals dissipate, melt, and evaporate as they fall through warmer and drier air and never reach ground. Cirrus clouds warm the earth, potentially contributing to climate change. A warming earth will likely produce more cirrus clouds, potentially resulting in a self-reinforcing loop. Optical phenomena, such as sun dogs and halos, can be produced by light interacting with ice crystals in cirrus clouds. There are two other high-level cirrus-like clouds called cirrostratus and cirrocumulus. Cirrostratus looks like a sheet of cloud, whereas cirrocumulus looks like a pattern of small cloud tufts. Unlike cirrus and cirrostratus, cirrocumulus clouds contain droplets of supercooled (below freezing point) water. Cirrus clouds form in the atmospheres of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune; and on Titan, one of Saturn's larger moons. Some of these extraterrestrial cirrus clouds are made of ammonia or methane ice, much like water ice in cirrus on Earth. Some interstellar clouds, made of grains of dust smaller than a thousandth of a millimeter, are also called cirrus.

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1. cirrus cloud

   Cirrus clouds are thin, wispy, high-altitude clouds that occur above 20,000 feet. They are usually composed of ice crystals due to the cold atmospheric conditions at high altitudes. These clouds are often a sign of fair weather, but they can also indicate a change in weather when they appear in increasing numbers. They are easily recognized by their characteristic feathery or hair-like appearance.

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   The numerical value of cirrus cloud in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

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   The numerical value of cirrus cloud in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

References

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