"Stratus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... has gone from west to W.S.W. and still blows nearly force 6. We are lying very comfortably alongside a floe with open water to windward for 200 or 300 yards. The sky has been clear most of the day, fragments of low stratus occasionally hurry across the sky and a light cirrus is moving with some speed. Evidently it is blowing hard in the upper current. The ice has closed—I trust it will open well when the wind lets up. ...
— Scott's Last Expedition Volume I • Captain R. F. Scott
... stratus of the upper regions of the atmosphere, heavier looking than the cirrus, but not so heavy as ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth
... clouds which clung to the mountains on the other side of the valley of the Visp; remarking that the weather might continue fair throughout the day, but that these clouds were ominous. At four o'clock we were on our way, by which time a gray stratus cloud had drawn itself across the neck of the Matterhorn, and soon afterward another of the same nature encircled his waist. We proceeded past the Riffelhorn to the ridge above the Goerner Glacier, from which Monte Rosa was visible ...
— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume VI • Various |
