Hints to Meteorological Observers: Prepared Under the Direction of the Council of the Royal Meteorological SocietyE. Stanford, 1911 - 75 pages |
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Page 32 - Rain Clouds. — A thick layer of dark clouds, without shape and with ragged edges, from which steady rain or snow usually falls.
Page 33 - Stratus (St.). — A uniform layer of cloud resembling a fog but not resting on the ground. When this sheet is broken up into irregular shreds in a wind, or by the summits of mountains, it may be distinguished by the name Fracto-stralus (Fr.-St.).
Page 66 - ... in the direction of the movement of the hands of a watch as...
Page 67 - Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right.
Page 33 - Sometimes the upper edges assume the compact form of cumulus, and form massive peaks round which delicate "false cirrus" floats. At other times the edges themselves separate into a fringe of filaments similar to cirrus clouds. This last form is particularly common in spring showers. The front of thunderclouds of wide extent frequently presents the form of a large arc spread over a portion of a uniformly brighter sky.
Page 32 - A thin, whitish sheet of clouds sometimes covering the sky completely and giving it only a milky appearance (it is then called Cirro-nebula) at other times presenting, more or less distinctly, a formation like a tangled web.
Page 32 - Thick cloud of which the upper surface is dome-shaped and exhibits protuberances while the base is generally horizontal.
Page 32 - Bather large globular masses, white or grayish, partially shaded, arranged in groups or lines, and often so closely packed that their edges appear confused.
Page 32 - When the light falls aslant, these clouds give deep shadows; when, on the contrary, the clouds are on the same side as the sun, they appear dark, with bright edges.
Page 32 - A thick sheet of a gray or bluish color, sometimes forming a compact mass of dark gray color and fibrous structure. At other times the sheet is thin, resembling thick Ci.-St., and through it the Sun or the Moon may be seen dimly gleaming as through ground glass.