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/ˌsɪɹə(ʊ)ˈstɹeɪtəs/ · noun
(meteorology) A principal high-level cloud type appearing as a whitish veil, usually fibrous but sometimes smooth, which may totally cover the sky and which often produces halo phenomena..
[page 99] Cirro-stratus. […] Horizontal or slightly inclined masses, attenuated towards a part or the whole of their circumference, bent downward, or undulated, separate, or in groups consisting of small clouds having these characters. […] [page 103] The cirro-stratus precedes wind and rain, the near or distant approach of which may sometimes be estimated from its greater or less abundance and permanence.
Use cirrostratus when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cirrostratus means (meteorology) A principal high-level cloud type appearing as a whitish veil, usually fibrous but sometimes smooth, which may totally cover the sky and which often produces halo phenomena..
Common synonyms include Cs, cirrostratus cloud.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[page 99] Cirro-stratus. […] Horizontal or slightly inclined masses, attenuated towards a part or the whole of their circumference, bent downward, or undulated, separate, or in groups consisting of small clouds having these characters. […] [page 103] The cirro-stratus precedes wind and rain, the near or distant approach of which may sometimes be estimated from its greater or less abundance and permanence.
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