Low-level clouds with a rather uniform base
These clouds are gray and look like a sheet layer. They rarely produce precipitation.
gloomy, gray, featureless sheets of clouds that cover the entire sky, at low levels of the atmosphere.
One of the cloud genera, Generally grey cloud layer with a fairly uniform base, which may give drizzle ice prisms or snow grains. When the sun is visible through the cloud, its outline is clearly discernible. Stratus does not produce halo phenomena except, possibly, at very low temperatures.
A type of cloud. Stratus clouds look like a giant grey blanket that completely covers the sky.
A low, gray cloud layer with a rather uniform base whose precipitation is most commonly drizzle.
Low clouds that are flat and gray, usually covering most of the sky.
horizontal layers of clouds that blanket the sky
a low-level cloud in the form of a gray layer with a rather uniform base
Very flat low level clouds.
Generally gray cloud layer with a fairly uniform base, which may give drizzle, ice prisms, or snow grains. When the Sun is visible through the cloud, its outline is clearly discernible; Stratus does not produce halo phenomena except, possibly, at very low temperatures; sometimes it appears in the form of ragged patches.
A principal cloud type, gray in color, appearing in a layer from the 1000 to 6000 foot levels Stratus normally do not produce rain but occasionally will produce drizzle.
A low, generally gray cloud layer with a fairly uniform base. Stratus may appear in the form of ragged patches, but otherwise does not exhibit individual cloud elements as do cumulus and stratocumulus clouds. Fog usually is a surface-based form of stratus.
One of the three basic cloud forms (the others are cirrus and cumulus. It is also one of the two low cloud types. It is a sheetlike cloud that does not exhibit individual elements, and is, perhaps, the most common of all low clouds. Thick and gray, it is seen in low, uniform layers and rarely extends higher than 5,000 feet above the earth's surface. A veil of stratus may give the sky a hazy appearance. Fog may form from a stratus cloud that touches the ground. Although it can produce drizzle or snow, it rarely produces heavy precipitation. Clouds producing heavy precipitation may exist above a layer of stratus.