Which are the cirrus clouds?

Cirrus clouds are small, snowy white whisps. They are fine and gauzy looking and usually curved as though they were splashed on the sky by someone testing a brush of white paint.

Cirrus clouds float very high, from 3 to 6 miles above the ground, For this reason you can often catch glimpses of them way above the fluffy white cumulus clouds. High up there, the vapor of a cloud is quickly turned to minute particles of ice. The icy fragments of the cirrus clouds tend to reflect the brilliant shades of dawn and sunset more than any other cloud particles.