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

Sun halos are optical illusions created when ice crystals form in the correct shape in the upper atmosphere, usually accompanying thin, wispy cirrus clouds.

From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 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

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

Finally, I may remark that the whole of the body and the cirri are capable of many diversified movements.

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

Body and cirri, either nearly white or pale purplish-lead colour, with the arms of the second, third, and fourth cirri, and pedicels of the fifth and sixth, more or less tinted with orange.

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

The observer must watch the formation of cirri, and the different forms of cirro-stratus and stratus, and become familiar with their appearance.

From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Thomas Belden Butler

On the opposite side of the disk the Comatula is covered with plates, arranged regularly around a central plate, which is itself covered with long cirri.

From Seaside Studies in Natural History Marine Animals of Massachusetts Bay. Radiates. by Alexander Agassiz

Margarita, five to seven pairs of epipodial cirri with a pigment spot at base of each.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various