noun

• Cloud forming a continuous uniform layer which resembles stratus but occurs at medium altitude (typically 2 to 7 km, 6,500 to 23,000 ft).

  ‘The grey layer looks like and should be an altostratus although the fronts look different in the tropical regions.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘An altostratus cloud usually covers the whole sky and has a gray or blue-gray appearance.’
  • ‘Where enough light shows through cirrostratus clouds to create shadows, it does not with altostratus.’
  • ‘From the ground this altostratus looks white or slightly blue and watery.’
  • ‘You were probably looking at the sun or moon through a layer of altostratus clouds.’