At four o'clock we were on our way, by which time a gray stratus cloud had drawn itself across the neck of the Matterhorn, and soon afterwards another of the same nature encircled his waist.
Through the gloom it appeared like a cloud, the lines of bedding giving to it the stratus character.
Once, turning my head to the left, I saw what appeared to me to be a huge mass of stratus cloud, at a great distance, with the stars shining over it.
In the wet season they grow into the nimbus and stratustypes that precede a sudden downpour of water or a furious hailstorm.
And so in one or two instances I think I have seen light cirro-stratus clouds above the counter-trade, when it ran very low, setting from the N.
The annexed figure (14) shows the appearance of the northern edge of a stratus storm cloud, passing off E.
The cirrus by 1 " The cumulus by 3 " The stratus by 2 " The nimbus by 4 " How far these representations correspond with the actual appearance of the different compound forms in England, I can not say.
Where a fresh southerly or south-westerly wind is followed by any considerable cirro-stratus or stratus-condensation, it is usually of this character.
When it extends and expands, and its threads widen and coalesce into cirro-stratus and stratus, or it induces a layer of stratus below it, the rain forms.
The observer must watch the formation of cirri, and the different forms of cirro-stratus and stratus, and become familiar with their appearance.
On Sunday, the 28th, the cirro-stratus were all day passing from the S.
The reason is that both cirrus and stratus have characteristics which in one or the other direction tend away from the pure realm of atmospheric cloud-formation.
In the language of physics, the stratus forms an equipotential surface in the gravitational field permeating the earth's atmosphere.
Thus the stratus arranges itself in a direction which is already conditioned by the earth's field of gravity.
In the cirrus there is present a tendency to expand; in the stratus to contract.
Through openings in these clouds an upper layer of cirro-stratus or alto-stratus may almost invariably be seen.
The scheme also provides that where a stratus or nimbus takes a lumpy form, this fact shall be described by the adjective cumuliformis, and if its base shows downward projecting bosses the word mammato is prefixed.
The cirro-stratus blended with the cumulus, and either appearing intermixed with the heaps of the latter or superadding a widespread structure to its base.
Stratus is probably the commonest cloud of high latitudes, often covering the sky for days without a break.
We commenced the day unluckily, for a low Stratus cloud had spread like a tablecloth over the Beardmore and filled up the glacier with mist.
Practically no ice in sight, but a sunlit summer sea in place of the pack, with blue sky and cumulo stratus clouds, so different from the gray, hard skies that hung so much over the great ice field we had just forced.
Finally, very low stratus or nimbus may be measured by noting the heights of their bases on the sides of the hill.
Fog is often formed in this way, which we call stratus cloud when it rises above us.
The setting sun descended on a blue stratus cloud which appeared along the edge of all other parts of the horizon, and eagerly watching any indication of a change, I drew even from this a presage of rain.
The wind lulled, and heavy clouds of stratus appeared in the east, towards evening.
High winds whistled among the trees this morning, and dark clouds of stratus appeared in the sky.
I think one of the most striking forms of cirro-stratus is the polar 'band,' which stretches from one side of the sky to the other, like a wide white road.
Away off on the horizon, though, you can see a bigger bunch of those festoons, dropping from the five-mile height of the cirro-stratus and condensing away down lower.
The general idea of the classification is by the heights of clouds, the Cirrus group being the highest, from about six to ten miles, the Alto group, ranging from two to six miles, and the Cumulus and Stratus groups below that.
Sometimes a Cirro-Stratus cloud comes along and fastens itself to it parasitically.
They consisted of a great number of hemispherical forms of large diameter, hanging vertically from a Stratus cloud or plane above them, and to which they appeared attached.
The Cirro-Stratus is more compact than the Cirrus,--the strata being inclined or horizontal.
But this stratus is too high for that classification and so they call it alto-stratus.
Another form that the cirro stratus may assume is the mackerel sky,--clouds with the light and shade of the scales of a fish.
If the cirro-stratus or scaly clouds are followed by a conspicuous lowering it is only a question of a few hours until precipitation begins.
The cirro-stratus at a lower level is called alto-stratus and this becomes heavy enough to obscure the sun.
All the rest is torn stratusand cumulus, which needs to condense a little further before it becomes nimbus.
In summer a break in the nimbus will show a veil of cirro-stratus above.
Cumulus or stratus may be floating up from the south.
A haze of cirro-stratus cloud will gradually overspread the sky from the west, darkening into a blue from the original whitish or gray.
Sunrise, stratus clouds, wind rising in gusts at Philadelphia to 30 miles; 8 A.
In winter there is not such an opportunity offered and the few clouds that form because of the daily variation in temperature are flatter and are called stratus clouds.
During the afternoon, the sun occasionally gleamed through a tract of cirro-stratus cloud and there was a very fine parhelion: signs of an approaching blizzard.
A rim of dark, stratus cloud was often visible below the light which brightened and diffused till it curved as a low arc across the sky.
The sky was hazy with cirro-stratus and a fine halo "ringed" the sun.
It was well known that he came to Stratus intending to act with Perseus; but that, with the change of fortune, he had changed his mind, and joined the Romans, against whom he had come.
This is the twain-cloud, so called because the stratus blends with the cumulus; it is most frequent during a changeable state of the barometer.
Is the stratus of the upper regions of the atmosphere, heavier looking than the cirrus, but not so heavy as the stratus.
When the sun is more or less obscured by a thicker or thinner cirro-stratus cloud, and when he is said to be wading in the cloud, rain may come—if the cloud indicates rain it will come.
When a cumulus increases rapidly a cumulo-stratus frequently forms around its summit, resting thereon as on a mountain, while the former cloud continues to be seen, in some degree, through it.
The cumulo-stratus is more dense and continuous in its structure; thick in the middle, and thinned off towards the edges.
The cirro-stratus most frequently forms the solar and lunar halo.
The cumulo-stratus speedily becomes denser and spreads, while the upper part of the cumulus extends likewise, and passes into it, the base continuing as it was.
The third is the Cumulo-Stratus, which is made up of the cirro-stratus blended with the cumulus.
As the Cumulus belongs to the day, so does the Stratus to the night.
The stratus has long been regarded as the harbinger of fine weather; and, indeed, there are few days in the year more serene than those whose morning breaks out through a stratus.
At other times, the cirro-stratus is first formed above the cumulus, and their sudden union is attended with the production of cirri and rain.
The morning was fine, though somewhat overcast by stratus and cumulus clouds; moderate south-south-westerly and south-easterly breezes.
To the south hard streaks of stratus lay heaped up to 30 degrees above the horizon.
During forenoon notice a distinct terra-cotta or biscuit colour in the stratus clouds to the north.
They increase in the region of a depression, and attain their greatest height in thunderstorms, the thickness of the cumulo stratus stretching sometimes for several miles.
The complete absence of detail of structure differentiates stratus from other aggregated forms of cloud.
If there are openings in the cloud an upper layer of cirro-stratus may almost invariably be seen through them.
Cirro-stratus and cirro-cumulus also are sometimes similarly arranged in long bands.
Whenever a thin veil of cirrus or cirro-stratus clouds overspreads the sky there is a likelihood that halos will be visible.
Some stratus cloud about Discovery and over White Island.
On Saturday night it blew hard from the south, thick overhead, low stratusand drift.
As I returned from my walk the southern sky seemed to grow darker, and later stratus cloud was undoubtedly spreading up from that direction--this at about 5 P.
The facts supporting the theory are the actual formation of a stratus cloud before a blizzard, the snow and warm temperature of the blizzard and its gusty nature.
Shortly after we started mist formed about us, waxing and waning in density; a slight southerly breeze sprang up, cumulo-stratus cloud formed overhead with a rather windy appearance (radial E.
Sometimes the southern sky looks dark and ominous, but within half an hour all has changed--the land comes and goes as the veil of stratus lifts and falls.
To-night there is some stratus cloud forming--a hint no more bad weather in sight.
The sky was slightly overcast during the march, with radiating cirro-stratus S.
The sky was blue all around the horizon, but overhead a cumulo-stratus grew early; it seemed to be drifting to the south and later to the east.
Crozier and the land is showing up well, though Erebus is veiled in stratus cloud.
The Bluff mantle is a wide low bank of stratus not particularly windy in appearance; the wind is falling, but the sky still looks lowering to the south and there is a general appearance of unrest.
We found a thin stratusover the sky this morning, foreboding ill.
Kramer proposes to follow Tzschucke, and to exchange the positions of the wordsStratus and Alyzia in the text.
Here are situated Stratus and Trichonium, which has an excellent soil.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stratus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
