If the cloud layer becomes grayer to the point when individual clouds can’t be distinguished, stratocumulus turn into stratus clouds. Stratocumulus Perlucidus is a layer of stratocumulus clouds with small spaces, appearing in irregular pattern, through which clear sky or higher clouds can be seen.
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Most often, stratocumulus produce no precipitation, and when they do, it is generally only light rain or snow. However, these clouds are often seen at either the front or tail end of worse weather, so they may indicate storms to come, in the form of thunderheads or gusty winds.
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What are nimbostratus clouds? Nimbostratus clouds are dark, grey, featureless layers of clouds, thick enough to block out the sun. Producing persistent rain, these clouds are often associated with frontal systems provided by mid-latitude cyclones. These are probably the least picturesque of all the main cloud types.
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When altostratus thickens and becomes rain-bearing, it becomes a nimbostratus cloud. Symbol: Height of base: 2,000 - 10,000 ft. Shape: Bands or areas of individual cells.
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Best Answer: Cirrus clouds are clouds high up in the atmosphere (20,000 feet +). They are made up of ice crystals and do not cause any precipitation. They are associated with fair weather. Cumulonimbus clouds are also known as thunderclouds. Their bases can be quite low to the grounds but their tops can reach as high as 70,000 feet.
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Nimbostratus clouds are associated with rain. They do not produce as much heavy rain as cumulonimbus do. Such clouds are not very high up in the sky and look like a grayish blanket. Source(s): 14 yrs. of studying meteorology. More info on clouds http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jetstream/synopt...
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This often does not apply when stratocumulus is of a broken, fractus form, when it may appear as small as altocumulus. Stratocumulus is also often, though not always, darker in colour than altocumulus. Stratocumulus clouds are the main type of cloud that can produce crepuscular rays.
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Description[edit] A stratocumulus cloud belongs to a genus-type of clouds characterized by large dark, rounded masses, usually in groups, lines, or waves, the individual elements being larger than those in altocumulus, and the whole being at a lower altitude, usually below 2,400 meters (8,000 ft).
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Nimbostratus are thick homogeneous rain clouds formed by air saturating by increasingly thickening cloud at a warm front. Their depth runs from near ground level to high levels- over 20,000 feet. Rain, often heavy, falls as soon as the dew point is reached in the saturated air. The rain may last for several hours depending on how fast the frontal system is moving. Once the Warm front has passed it is usually followed by a cold front bringing showery weather from cumulus clouds.
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what kind of weather do nimbostratus clouds bring
Nimbostratus clouds bring dark, grey, featureless layers of clouds, thick enough to block out the sun like weather. The Nimbostratus clouds bring of weather do Dark, grey, featureless layers of clouds, thick enough to block out the sun.