To understand how clouds get their shape, it helps to understand the basics of how they form. When air rises and cools, the ...

Weather officials say different types of clouds can tell you what kind of weather to expect. Here's a look at the different types.

Satellites soaring high above Earth have revealed exactly how wispy clouds are created by the giant plumes of ash belched ...

Have you ever gazed up at the sky and wondered why clouds look so incredibly different from one another? One moment, you spot ...

Weather officials say different types of clouds can tell you what kind of weather to expect. Here's a look at the different types.

When volcanic eruptions send towering plumes of ash into the atmosphere, they don’t just darken the sky or affect local air ...

Fluorescence lidar technology enables a better determination of the origin of particles in the atmosphere. The method can ...

There are 10 main types of clouds. There's the Cumulus cloud, otherwise know as the Simpsons' cloud. "The cartoon cloud that forms on a sunny day. The fair weather cloud. It's like the generic one, ...

We’ve got a beautiful day on the way Friday, with partly to mostly sunny skies, and some high thin cirrus clouds filtering during the afternoon. Temperatures are a little cooler than as of late, only ...

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 ...

Clouds hosted fewer but larger ice crystals, and cirrus clouds—high, wispy clouds made mostly of ice—were more frequent. The same was not the case for ash-poor eruptions. "At the beginning of ...

Scientists are using new techniques to identify previously undetected layers of cloud in the atmosphere, layers which will ...