Cirrocumulus stratiformis

Looking up at the sky is rewarding because clouds appear in various forms. On my birthday, I found these thin clouds in the sky over Ma On Shan. It is not difficult to find their names from the Internet.

Well, this kind of clouds is a type of cirrocumulus cloud, called Cirrocumulus stratiformis. The name cirrocumulus stratiformis is derived from Latin, meaning "stretched out".

Cirrocumulus stratiformus occurs as very small cirrocumulus clouds that cover a large part of the sky. This type of cloud always occurs in thin layers. There can be spaces or rifts between the individual cloudlets in the layer.

It is quite interesting to know that clouds are abbreviated and even have symbols. Let us study the following precious information from Wikipedia:

Abbreviation: Cc str
Symbol:

Genus: Cirro- (curl of hair) -cumulus: (heaped)
Species: Stratiformis (layered) Altitude Above 6,000 m (Above 20,000 ft)
Classification: Family A (High-level) Appearance horizontal layers
No Precipitation cloud

The bottom-right photo shows a plane that flied in to Hong Kong from the east and, I guessed, was heading for inland China.