Scud Clouds low, detached clouds caught in thunderstorm outflow
Scud clouds are low, detached clouds caught in the outflow beneath the thunderstorm.
*Scud (or Fractus) - Small, ragged, low cloud fragments that are unattached to a larger cloud base and often seen with and behind cold fronts and thunderstorm gust fronts.
Scud Clouds - Low cloud fragments often seen in association with and behind thunderstorm gust fronts. these clouds are ragged and wind-torn and are not usually attached to the thunderstorm base. Scud clouds do not produce severe weather.
SCUD
Low fragments of clouds, usually stratus fractus, that are unattached and below a layer of higher clouds, either nimbostratus or cumulonimbus.
scud—Small detached masses of stratus fractus clouds below a layer of higher clouds, usually nimbostratus.
SCUD - Low broken clouds usually found beneath thunderstorm cloud bases, near fronts, or near cooler rain outflow regions. Common acronym for Scattered Cumulus Under Deck.
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Scud Ragged low clouds, usually stratus fractus. Most often applied when such clouds are moving rapidly beneath a layer of nimbostratus.
FractusRagged, detached cloud fragments; same as scud.Frazil IceIn hydrologic terms, fine spicules, plates, or discoids of ice suspended in water. In rivers and lakes, frazil is formed in supercooled, turbulent water.
Fractus - Ragged, detached cloud fragments; same as scud.
Fujita Scale (or F Scale) - A scale of wind damage intensity in which wind speeds are inferred from an analysis of wind damage: F0 (weak): 40- 72 mph, light damage.
Ragged, detached cloud fragments, also called fractus or scud.
CMC
The global implementation of the Global Environmental Multiscale (GEM) model run by Environment Canada, run twice daily at high resolution out to +144 hours.
Cloud Tags - Ragged, detached cloud fragments; fractus or scud.
Cloudburst - A sudden, intense rainfall that is normally of short duration.
Cloudy - the state of the sky when 7/10ths or more of the sky is covered by clouds.
FRACTUS The elements of cumulus and stratus clouds that appear in irregular fragments, as if they had been shred or torn. Never appears in cirrus clouds. Also known as scud. Related terms: cumulus fractus and stratus fractus ...
by its smaller vertical extent, darker color, and by the greater dispersion of its particles. Cumulus fractus actually looks like a ragged cumulus cloud. The species fractus occurs only in the genera mentioned above. See cloud classification, scud.
Wall clouds that persist for more than ten minutes, wall clouds that seem to move violently up or down, and violent movements of cloud fragments (scud or fractus) near the wall cloud are indications that a tornado could form.
 See also: Cloud, Clouds, Storm, Air, Precipitation
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