| 1805 - 948 pages
...or cirrostratus. " Of tlit Cli-ro-itrrittis. " This cloud appeals to result from the subsidence or the fibres of the cirrus to a horizontal position,...laterally. The form and relative position, when seen in die distance, frequently give the idea cf shoals of fish. Yet in this, as in other instances, die structure... | |
| Physics - 1803 - 922 pages
...rccumtnmt. efAg. lih. i. The cirro-cumulus is frequent in summer, and is attendant on warm and dry weather. It is also occasionally and more sparingly seen in the intervals of showers, and in winter*. iTmay either evaporate, or pass to the cirrus or cirro-stratus. Of the Cirro-stratus. This cloud appears... | |
| George G. Carey - Astronomy - 1825 - 274 pages
...different altitudes. The cirro-cumulus is frequent in summer, and is attendant on warm and dry weather. It is also occasionally and more sparingly seen in the intervals of showers, and in winter. The following passage is beautifully descriptive of the appearance of this modification by moonlight... | |
| Luke Howard - Climatology - 1833 - 462 pages
...different altitudes. The Cirrocumulus is frequent in summer, and is attendant on warm and dry weather. It is also occasionally and more sparingly seen in...and relative position, when seen in the distance, frequently give the idea of shoals of fish. Yet in this, as in other instances, the structure must... | |
| Luke Howard - Climatology - 1833 - 570 pages
...different altitudes. The Cirrocumulus is frequent in summer, and is attendant on warm and dry weather. It is also occasionally and more sparingly seen in...the same time that they approach towards each other Jaterally. The form and relative position, when seen in the distance, frequently give the idea of shoals... | |
| Charles Tomlinson - Clouds - 1846 - 226 pages
...applied to this modification. The whole sky is sometimes covered with these small masses. They are occasionally, and more sparingly, seen in the intervals of showers, and in winter. Bloomfield, in the following beautiful lines, has noticed the appearance of the sonder-cloud:— "... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1858 - 474 pages
...disappears at sunrise. It is the cloud of night. Cirro-stratus is composed of bands of filaments, resulting from the subsidence of the fibres of the cirrus to a horizontal position, as -they approach each other laterally. These clouds form horizontal strata, and exhibit the phenomena... | |
| Luke Howard - Clouds - 1865 - 86 pages
...VIRGIL, Georg. lib. i The Cirro-cumulus is frequent in summer, and is attendant on warm and dry weather. It is also occasionally and more sparingly seen in...evaporate, or pass to the Cirrus or Cirrostratus. Of the Cirro-Slratus. This Cloud appears to result from the subsidence of the fibres of the Cirrus to a horizontal... | |
| Charles Tomlinson - Atmospheric physics - 1865 - 428 pages
...applied to this modification. The whole sky is sometimes covered with these small masses. They are occasionally, and more sparingly, seen in the intervals of showers, and in winter. Bloomfield, in the following lines, has noticed the appearance of the sonder-cloud : — " For yet... | |
| Thomas Dick - Philosophy and religion - 1869 - 664 pages
...intervals of showers; they are a sure prognostic of encreased temperature. The Cirro-stratus results from the subsidence of the fibres of the cirrus to...horizontal position, at the same time that they approach each other laterally. This cloud descends lower in the atmosphere than the cirrus, its fibres become... | |
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