It occurs in patches or sheets along with other cirrocumulus.

When used in this way, each cirrocumulus element is referred to as a "cloudlet".

This species of cirrocumulus can often be quite elongated and normally has very distinguished boundaries.

The other two genera, cirrocumulus and cirrostratus, are also high clouds.

The name cirrocumulus stratiformis is derived from Latin, meaning "stretched out".

Cirrocumulus are, like other members of the cumuliform category, formed via convective processes.

Strato- is excluded from cirrocumulus to avoid double prefixing.

He added three combined terms: cirrocumulus, cirrostratus and cumulostratus.

Cirrus radiatus is often partly made up of cirrocumulus or cirrostratus.

There are three main genera in the family of high clouds: cirrus, cirrocumulus, and cirrostratus.

However, if cirrocumulus also appears, there is greater airmass instability arriving with the front which increases the risk that thunderstorms may accompany the system.

In a couple of cases, an entire genus like cirrocumulus is represented by one cloud symbol, regardless of species, varieties, or any other considerations.

The day was hot and bright and humid, with a layer of high cirrocumulus, warning of unsettled weather to come.

Cirrocumulus (Cc)

Like lower altitude cumuliform and stratocumuliform clouds, cirrocumulus signifies convection.

The high-étage clouds are all cirriform, one of which, cirrocumulus, is also cumuliform.

Unlike other high cirrus and cirrostratus, cirrocumulus includes a small amount of liquid water droplets, although these are in a supercooled state.

Cirrocumulus and cirrostratus are sometimes informally referred to as "cirriform clouds" because of their frequent association with cirrus.

Cirrocumulus is one of the three main genus-types of high-altitude tropospheric clouds, which also includes cirrus and cirrostratus.

Cirrocumulus is distinguished from altocumulus in several ways, although the two stratocumuliform genus types can occasionally occur together with no clear demarcation between them.

This causes air to rise from the base cloud, and if the air ascends into conditionally unstable air, cirrocumulus castellanus will form.

Elements within the cloud (such as the edges of the undulations) are generally darker than those in cirrocumulus and smaller than those in stratocumulus.

Properly, the term cirrocumulus refers to each cloud, but is typically also used to refer to an entire patch of cirrocumulus.

Convection at high altitudes can produce another high based genus called cirrocumulus, a pattern of small cloud tufts that contain droplets of supercooled water.

Smaller cumulus or stratocumulus clouds, along with cirrus and sometimes altocumulus or cirrocumulus can be found ahead of the squall line.