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Hooked Cirrus Royal Meteorological Society UK, Weather and Climate
They are called cirrus uncinus (from the Latin cirrus, meaning 'a curl or tuft of hair', and uncinus, meaning 'hooked'). At cloud level, the temperature ... Cirrus uncinus, Cirrostratus, Altostratus, Nimbostratus. Sometimes, the sequence also includes Cirrocumulus and Altocumulus clouds. As the slope of the warm or occluded front is typically 1 in 100 to 1 in 150, Cirrus uncinus ...
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