Cirrus are the highest of the ten different categories of cloud structure. They consist of whisps of individual ice crystals falling from high up

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Cirrus are the highest of the ten different categories of cloud structure. They consist of whisps of individual ice crystals falling from the troposphere

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Location: Scarborough, UK
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