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C_L7 Stratus/Cumulus fractus bad weather

Often forms beneath lowering altostratus or nimbostratus.

St Fra
Pannus (dark) 600 ft, beneath nimbostratus (light grey) 2,000 ft. © C.S. Broomfield

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