Relating to or resembling a combination of cirrus and cumulus cloud types, or having characteristics of both wispy high clouds and puffy low clouds.
From Latin cirrus (curl, wisp) + cumulus (heap, pile) + -ar (adjective suffix). Meteorological terminology combining two cloud types to describe mixed characteristics.
Meteorologists use cirrocumular patterns (like the 'mackerel sky') to predict weather changes within 24 hours—fishermen have been using these cloud patterns for navigation for centuries!
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