cirrus

The most likely explanation is the presence of thick but uneven water ice clouds, similar to cirrus clouds high in Earth's atmosphere -- an unexpected complication.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 22, 2026

Wind shear can occur in wispy cirrus clouds or even in clear air near thunderstorms, as differences in temperature and pressure create powerful currents of fast-moving air.

From Seattle Times ● May 21, 2024

The remaining, thinner cirrus clouds would allow more long-wave radiation emanating from Earth to escape to space.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 20, 2023

Enjoy it while you can: In a few million years, the nebula will be gone, evaporated by its fierce stellar progeny like a fleecy windblown cirrus cloud on a summer afternoon,

From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2022

He looked at the sky and saw the white cumulus built like friendly piles of ice cream and high above were the thin feathers of the cirrus against the high September sky.

From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway

All the five posterior pair of cirri resemble each other more closely than is usual.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin

In very young specimens, the cirri are only barred with purple.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin

On Tuesday this gentleman reports his detection of some "cirri," and he kindly writes to the Times to give the world the benefit of the discovery.

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

In some of the cirri, several of the basal segments are soldered together.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin

E, Side view, later stage and with cirri extended.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various