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EA: MIDDLE_CLOUD_GENUS
EE: NIMBOSTRATUS

Status: STD 2005/06/07
Code: 3
EA label: MIDDLE_CLOUD_GENUS
Concept definition: A grey <CLOUD_LAYER> that is often dark with an appearance rendered diffuse by more or less continuously falling <RAIN> and/or <SNOW_PRECIPITATION>, which in most cases reaches the <PLANETARY_SURFACE>, and thick enough throughout to blot out the <SUN>; nimbostratus.
 
Reference type: PR
Reference: [WMO407, Section II.2.3.1, "nimbostratus"]
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