With Michigan's changeable weather, residents get to see a lot of different cloud formations — fluffy cumulus, wispy cirrus and dark, threatening cumulonimbus — and recognizing what weather each type ...
Mysterious, motionless clouds often mistaken for UFOs are actually lenticular clouds, a well-understood meteorological ...
Is your weather app predicting clouds? No need to pull out that umbrella just yet. Not all cloudy days are the same, or, not all clouds are the same to be exact. There are a number of distinguishing ...
MOLINE, Ill — Perhaps one of the strangest appearing things in the sky you'll ever witness, this unique cloud formation comes in different sizes and shapes. It is, however, usually caused by the same ...
NORFOLK, Va. — Did you look at the sky on Monday as the severe storms exited the region? If you did, you might have been treated to a really cool and not-too-common sight in our area: mammatus clouds!
In the summer months, the skies can fill up with a variety of interesting and unusual cloud formations, especially during stormy weather. Here’s a list of what to look for and what different clouds ...
Scott Salesky, a researcher with the University of Oklahoma, has been awarded funding from the U.S. Department of Defense ...
The surrounding air affects how snowflakes develop. In drier air, growth is slow and produces simple, compact or column-like designs that create dry, powdery snow. Humid air accelerates snowflake ...
Deep in the Amazon, high above the rainforest, clouds sprout from the thick atmosphere, their condensed water vapor billowing into the blue sky beyond. Underneath this, on the ground but acutely aware ...
A curious cloud photographed over Smith Mountain in Virginia this week looks more like something out of a fairytale or painting than it does in real life — and the science behind the formation is ...
A neat cloud phenomenon was observed by a WANE 15 viewer in Roanoke Friday afternoon. It is a large ellipitcal disc of blue sky and it appears within the thin cloud cover. This type of cloud formation ...