What does CS stand for?

Cirrostratus (cloud formation)

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Samples in periodicals archive:

When the wispy clouds spread and thicken into a layer of cirrostratus clouds, often producing a halo or ring around the sun, bad weather can be from six to 18 hours away.

Reading the clouds

They are often seen in this country, usually as high cirrus and cirrostratus clouds are increasing from the west in advance of Atlantic frontal systems.

Somewhere UNDER the rainbow..

Divided into sections devoted to low, middle, and high clouds, this field guide to the sky includes such details as that cumulonimbus clouds are ferocious storm producers, that altocumulus lenticularis clouds look like UFOs, and that cirrostratus clouds have a tendency for form halos.

The Cloudspotter's Guide

Progressing cloud genus by cloud genus from the low-lying puffy cumulus to the high-altitude wisps of cirrostratus, Pretor-Pinney begins each chapter with a one-page sidebar of how to spot that genus and its various species.

Entertaining storyteller takes clouds quite cirrus-ly; Book review

Next comes cirrostratus, producing a halo around the sun or moon.

Wrapped cozy in a shroud of cloud Our winter coat of gray has a ...

The halos appear about a dozen times a year as rising air cools and condenses, forming ice crystals and high, flat cirrostratus clouds, said Cliff Mass, a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington.

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