When's the last time you went cloud-gazing? Sinking, rising, spreading, changing—there’s always something exciting happening to the clouds overhead. The big puffy ones—what are they called? And the ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Clouds are one of the fundamentals of how weather works across the world. From shelf clouds to funnel clouds, each is unique and has scientific explanations as to how it is formed and ...

Got your head in the clouds? Well, that's exactly where I want you. Clouds are fascinating to watch as they float through the sky. But what is even more intriguing is that their appearance can give ...

There are mainly four types of clouds, which are further sub-categorised into 12 sub-types. Usually, when you look up at the sky, you will always find shifting shapes of clouds that are more than just ...

Weather forecasting can often seem as arcane as gazing into a crystal ball, but the skill lies in analyzing current conditions, identifying weather patterns and applying climatology to produce a ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Have you ever looked up at the sky and noticed how different the clouds can be from one day to the next? Clouds are actually powerful indicators of what’s happening in our ...

Asperitas and murus are just two of the names you'll see among several new classifications added to an updated cloud reference released this week by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). This ...

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Rainbows sometimes appear in the sky after a downpour, while water droplets still are lingering in the air. Those droplets, like a prism, bend white light from the sun into an arc of red, orange, ...