This superstition isn’t far wrong, since cirrus and cirrostratus clouds are often the first sign of an approaching warm front. So whenever you spot a halo, chances are you can expect rain or ...

Cirrus clouds are made of ice crystals and appear thin, white, and wispy. Cirrostratus clouds are whitish and transparent and tend to blanket the whole sky, sometimes creating a halo effect around ...

Cirrostratus clouds create a veil over the moon and sun. Tim Grist Photography / Getty Images To best view a lunar halo, sky conditions must be clear with only a thin layer of cirrus clouds.

Puffy, wispy, white and gray, we’ve seen them all this spring. Clouds come in a variety of types, and each type comes with ...

Garmin (NYSE: GRMN) today announced its award-winning Autoland system has been certified for the newest SR Series model, the SR Series G7+. The Cirrus Safe Return™ Emergency Autoland system in ...

According to Keith Berger, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Gaylord, sun halos form when high-altitude clouds — specifically cirrus or cirrostratus clouds — contain ...

Cirrus clouds are found high in the atmosphere where most jet planes fly, between 20,000 and 40,000 feet. ... which will gradually thicken and lower into cirrostratus clouds over the day.

The halo or circle is created when light is refracted, reflected, and dispersed through ice crystals suspended in cirrus or cirrostratus clouds located at an altitude of 20,000 feet and higher ...

In cirrus they give often almost the first intimation of coming change after settled weather, and are almost, if not quite, invariably followed within twenty four or thirty-six hours by thunder.

Cirrus: Detached white clouds that appear patchy or in narrow bands. They sometimes have a fibrous ... Cirrostratus: Transparent, veil-like clouds with a fibrous or smooth appearance.