cirro-stratus

It was a dull afternoon, a low foggy stratus was driving rapidly across the sky at a low level, and through the general misty gloom of a northern winter day we could just make out some striated stripes of strato-cirrus -- low cirro-stratus -- between the openings in the lower cloud layer.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887 Various

Uniform dense cirro-stratus, (S. fresh); noon showers all round;

Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence T. Bassnett

Cirrus and cirro-stratus -- the very clouds we want most to observe -- are always thin and indefined as regards their form and contrast against the rest of the sky, so that this defect of the method is the more unfortunate.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887 Various

The sky was hazy with cirro-stratus and a fine halo "ringed" the sun.

The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920

During the afternoon, the sun occasionally gleamed through a tract of cirro-stratus cloud and there was a very fine parhelion: signs of an approaching blizzard.

The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920

"A high cirro-stratus which looks as if some cream had been poured on the blue sky and hadn't mixed properly yet," the Forecaster continued,

The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

Away off on the horizon, though, you can see a bigger bunch of those festoons, dropping from the five-mile height of the cirro-stratus and condensing away down lower.

The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

The sky was in streaky horizontal clouds to the east, and thin misty clouds to the south -- cirro-stratus.

Across Unknown South America Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

The clouds (cirro-stratus) were, during the entire day, in horizontal lines and slight globular accumulations, the latter in a row and, taken

Across Unknown South America Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

The sky was slightly overcast during the march, with radiating cirro-stratus S.S.W. - N.N.E. Now very clear and bright again.

Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Robert Falcon Scott 1890