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Learn about stratocumulus clouds, including cloud description and facts, images, how to best identify them, and their species, varieties, and features.
Stratocumulus clouds are the main type of cloud that can produce crepuscular rays. Thin stratocumulus clouds are also often the cause of corona effects around the Moon at night.
Stratocumulus clouds are low-level clumps or patches of cloud varying in colour from bright white to dark grey. They are the most common clouds on earth recognised...
Stratocumulus clouds belong to the low-level cloud family and appear as extensive, rounded masses or rolls in the sky. They usually form between 1,200 and 6,500 feet (400 to 2,000...
Stratocumulus clouds are low-lying clouds that are typically 200–400 m thick and found at the top of the boundary layer below a thermal inversion. They can extend over long distances due to negative feedback mechanisms that control their thickness, such as drizzle production and entrainment of dry, warm air.
Stratus clouds hang low in the sky as a flat, featureless, uniform layer of grayish cloud. They resemble fog that hugs the horizon (instead of the ground). Stratus clouds are seen on dreary, overcast days and are associated with light mist or drizzle.
The most widespread of all cloud types, Stratocumulus is a low layer or patch of cloud that has a well-defined, clumpy base. The patches are either joined up, or have gaps in between.
The WMO International Cloud Atlas is the reference for the classification of clouds and meteorological meteors. It provides the definitions and descriptions of cloud types and meteors, and flow charts to help identify them.
Grey or whitish, or both grey and whitish, patch, sheet or layer of cloud that almost always has dark parts, composed of tessellations, rounded masses, rolls, etc., which are non-fibrous (except for virga) and which may or may not be merged; most of the regularly arranged small elements have an appa...
Only light precipitation, generally in the form of drizzle, occurs with stratocumulus clouds. To distinguish between a stratocumulus and an altocumulus cloud, point your hand toward the cloud. If the cloud is about the size of your fist, then it is stratocumulus.