 | Thomas Dick - 1799 - 200 pages
...appearances sufficiently remarkable to indicate this as a distinct modification of clouds. It consists of a horizontal sheet, above which the cirrus spreads,...the cumulus enters it laterally, and from beneath. Clouds are frequently highly charged with electricity. These not only produce violent storms of thunder... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 718 pages
...structure. 7. Cumulo-cirro-stratus, vel nimbus. Def. Nubes vel nubiuui congeries pluviam effundens. The rain cloud. A cloud, or system of clouds, from...which the cirrus spreads, while the cumulus enters ¡t laterally, and from beneath. For plates, and a detailed account in illustration of these definitions,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 pages
...latter, or superadding a widespread structure to its base. 7. Ctimulo-rirro-stratus, vel nimbus, is the rain cloud. A cloud or system of clouds from which...the cumulus enters it laterally and from beneath. The cirrus appears, according to this author, to hare the least density, the greatest elevation, the... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 836 pages
...latter, or supcradding a widespread structure to its base. 7. Cumulo-cirra-ttratus, •c.el nimbus, is the rain cloud. A cloud or system of clouds from which rain is falling. It is a horizontal sheet, «bove which the cirrus spreads, while the cumulus enters it laterally and from beneath. The cirrus... | |
 | Luke Howard - 1833 - 570 pages
...CUMULO-CIRRO-STRATUS vel NIMBUS. Def. Nubes vel nubium congeries [superne cirrata] pluviam effundens. The Rain cloud. A cloud, or system of clouds from...the Cumulus enters it laterally and from beneath. OF THE CIRRUS. Clouds in this Modification appear to have the least density, the greatest elevation,... | |
 | Luke Howard - 1833
...CUMULO-CIHRO-STHATUS vel NIMBUS. Def. Nubes vel nubium congeries [superne cirrata] pluviam effundens. The Rain cloud. A cloud, or system of clouds from...the Cumulus enters it laterally and from beneath. OF THE CIBRUS. Clouds in this Modification appear to have the least density, the greatest elevation,... | |
 | William Pinnock - 1833 - 738 pages
...CUMULO-CIRHO-STRATDS, or NIMBUS, the RAIN-CLOUD; that form into which the.other clouds resolve previously to rain. It is a horizontal sheet, above which the cirrus spreads while the cumulus enters it sideways, or from beneath. (O.) The Cirrus appears low and thick before a storm, and usually in a quarter... | |
 | William Mullinger Higgins - 1836 - 514 pages
...superadding a wide-spread structure to its base. 2. CUMULO-ÓIRRO-STRATUS, or NIMBUS, the rain-cloud. A cloud, or system of clouds, from which rain is falling....the cumulus enters it laterally and from beneath. For this classification of clouds, which is sufficient y accurate for the present state of the science... | |
 | 1836 - 422 pages
...horizontal arrangement. Compound Modifications. 2. CUMULO-CIRRO-STRATUS, or NIMBUS, the rain-cloud. A cloud, or system of clouds, from which rain is falling....the cumulus enters it laterally and from beneath. 1. CUMULO-STRATUS ; the cirro-stratus blended with the cumulus, and either appearing intermixed with... | |
 | Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - 1836 - 520 pages
...(i.)—Cumulo-cirro-stratus, or Nimbus, the rain-cloud, a cloud or system of clouds from which ram is falling, above which the cirrus spreads, while the cumulus enters it laterally and from beneath (1'late XV. Nos. 7 and 8.)—The Fall-Cloud, resting apparently on the surface of the ground (Plate... | |
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The Rain Cloud. A Cloud, or system of Clouds, from which rain is falling. It is a horizontal sheet, above which the Cirrus spreads, while the Cumulus enters it laterally and from beneath. 
