The Basic Building Blocks Every Cloud Needs Clouds need two essential ingredients to form, and both must be present ...

Answer: Clouds form when sufficiently moist air is cooled to the dew point temperature of the air or below, so that either liquid water droplets form on cloud condensation nuclei, or in the case of ...

Have you ever looked up at the clouds in the sky and wondered how they form? Understanding cloud formation is really important for studying weather patterns and making accurate forecasts. Those clouds ...

Ever looked up at the clouds and wondered where they came from? That's exactly what atmospheric researcher Lubna Dada studies at the Paul Scherrer Institute. She is part of an international project ...

The first report of this unusual cloud appeared in Weather magazine in 1948, in an article titled “Man-Made Cirrus?” The ...

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 ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Technically called “cumulonimbus flammagenitus,” pyrocumulonimbus clouds are a rare weather phenomenon caused by intense heat. These towering clouds form when extreme heat from a ...

If you looked up earlier Monday morning you may have seen some odd-looking clouds in eastern Iowa. These clouds seemed to look like a bunch of jellyfish in the sky. However, these cool-looking clouds ...

MT. HOOD MEADOWS, Ore. (KOIN) — Oregon’s latest cold front and strong winds helped simultaneously form a cap cloud and lenticular cloud over the peak of Mt. Hood on Tuesday. A time-lapse view of these ...