Though found worldwide, nimbostratus occurs more commonly in the middle latitudes. It is coded CM2 on the SYNOP report. Nimbostratus occurs along a warm front...

Pannus Nimbostratus with lower layer of fractus species cloud forming in precipitation. Genitus mother clouds Nimbostratus cumulogenitus Nimbostratus cumulonimbogenitus...

produce, nimbostratus produces heavy, continuous rain or snow. These clouds are thick and dark enough to entirely blot out the sun. Nimbostratus has no...

appear under the precipitation of major rain-bearing clouds; these are nimbostratus and cumulonimbus clouds, and are classified as types of pannus clouds...

the mid-altitude range and sometimes higher in the case of nimbostratus. Genus nimbostratus (Ns) – This is a diffuse, dark gray, multi-level stratiform...

cloud", is an outdated term for the type of cloud now classified as the nimbostratus cloud. Nimbus also may refer to: Halo (religious iconography), also known...

height above ground, detached, and of irregular form, found beneath nimbostratus, cumulonimbus, altostratus and cumulus clouds. These clouds are often...

fibratus, it can mean that the front is weak and that stratus rather than nimbostratus will be the precipitating cloud (meaning drizzle or snow grains instead...

appearance. Fractonimbus exist only under precipitation clouds (such as nimbostratus, altostratus or cumulonimbus), and don't produce precipitation themselves...

from the earth’s surface, precipitation can begin to fall from heavy nimbostratus. If unstable altocumulus castellanus accompanies or takes the place of...