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    surface observer. Nimbostratus usually has a thickness of about 2,000 to 4,000 m (6,600 to 13,100 ft). Though found worldwide, nimbostratus occurs more commonly...
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    Pannus Nimbostratus with lower layer of fractus species cloud forming in precipitation. Genitus mother clouds Nimbostratus cumulogenitus Nimbostratus cumulonimbogenitus...
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    produce, nimbostratus produces heavy, continuous rain or snow. These clouds are thick and dark enough to entirely blot out the sun. Nimbostratus has no...
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    height above ground, detached, and of irregular form, found beneath nimbostratus, cumulonimbus, altostratus and cumulus clouds. These clouds are often...
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    appear under the precipitation of major rain-bearing clouds; these are nimbostratus and cumulonimbus clouds, and are classified as types of pannus clouds...
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    the mid-altitude range and sometimes higher in the case of nimbostratus. Genus nimbostratus (Ns) – This is a diffuse, dark gray, multi-level stratiform...
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  • cloud", is an outdated term for the type of cloud now classified as the nimbostratus cloud. Nimbus also may refer to: Halo (religious iconography), also known...
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    appearance. Fractonimbus exist only under precipitation clouds (such as nimbostratus, altostratus or cumulonimbus), and don't produce precipitation themselves...
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    fibratus, it can mean that the front is weak and that stratus rather than nimbostratus will be the precipitating cloud (meaning drizzle or snow grains instead...
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    the moisture within the rising air will condense into clouds, namely nimbostratus and cumulonimbus if significant precipitation is involved. Eventually...
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    from the earth’s surface, precipitation can begin to fall from heavy nimbostratus. If unstable altocumulus castellanus accompanies or takes the place of...
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    form due to the complete transformation of cirrocumulus, altostratus, nimbostratus, or stratocumulus. Altocumulus perlucidus Altocumulus lenticularis Altocumulus...
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    form from altostratus and nimbostratus clouds, either as evaporating precipitation condenses into a cloud or as the nimbostratus cloud itself thins and breaks...
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  • morphology based on atmospheric clouds: cumulus, stratocumulus, stratus, nimbostratus, and cirrus; as well as nebulae: dark or glowing, amorphus or ring-shaped...
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    and downdrafts) needed for heavy precipitation. However, an advancing nimbostratus cloud could have a diffuse precipitation leading edge, so its shaft may...
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    present. In winter snow squalls or showers may occur. Prolonged rain (nimbostratus) or thunderstorms (cumulonimbus): depends on conditions. Showers, then...
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    the approaching front contains at least a few cumulonimbi amongst the nimbostratus rain clouds, and therefore any rain may be accompanied by thunderstorms...
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  • the free dictionary. Stratus may refer to: Stratus cloud, a cloud type Nimbostratus cloud, a cloud type Stratocumulus cloud, a cloud type Altostratus cloud...
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    cooler, subpolar air. Frontal precipitation typically falls out from nimbostratus clouds. When masses of air with different densities (moisture and temperature...
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    Nimbostratus virga...
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    altocumulus and altostratus. The next set of clouds are the rain-bearing nimbostratus clouds. When cirrus clouds precede a cold front, squall line or multicellular...
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  • is effectively reclassified as a stratiform cloud type. It is renamed nimbostratus (flattened or spread out rain cloud) and published with the new name...
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    altitude of stratiformis into the lower atmosphere, often evolving into Nimbostratus clouds, which precipitate. Altocumulus stratiformis clouds may also form...
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    also commonly classified or characterized as vertical or multi-level. Nimbostratus clouds are stratiform layers with sufficient vertical extent to produce...
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    Fractostratus (bad weather) Altocumulus (with Altocumulus, Altostratus, Nimbostratus) Cirrostratus (entire sky) 8 Cumulus and Stratocumulus Altocumulus (with...
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  • clouds (fog, stratus clouds, altostratus clouds, cirrostratus clouds, nimbostratus clouds) and the precipitation coming from them. Any occurrence of layered...
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    to moderate precipitation from non-convective cloudforms, especially nimbostratus. Not recommended for convection, except for pop-up thundershowers produced...
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    than one étage is coded as low (cumulus and cumulonimbus) or middle (nimbostratus) depending on the altitude level or étage where it normally initially...
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    during a positive SAM phase. The precipitation of the low comes from a nimbostratus cloud that dumps as much as 70 mm (2.76 in) of rain for as much as two...
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    Polish). OLiS. Retrieved 9 May 2024. "Sad", "Talenty i mankamenty", "Nimbostratus", "Miłość jest ślepa", "Wiśta wio!", "Mleczna droga", "Było, minęło"...
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