The 10 basic cloud types are classified by height (high, mid, low) and predict different weather patterns. Cloud names incorporate roots like cirro, strato, cumulo, nimbo, or alto, based on their ...

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 ...

I’m a meteorologist, and I’ve been fascinated by weather since I was 8 years old. I grew up in Minnesota, where the weather changes from wind-whipping blizzards in winter to severe thunderstorms – ...

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The night sky can host a wide range of spectacular sights like the northern lights, meteor showers and comets, as well as ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. If you're in the northern hemisphere and it's been a clear ...

PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. — A beautiful and relatively rare sight was captured Wednesday evening over Palm Beach County as a rainbow cloud formed. Cloud iridescence is also called a rainbow cloud or a ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - The viewer questions keep coming! Mark & Evelyn from Rostraver asked: "We once saw a huge roll cloud parallel to I-70 in Ohio east of Columbus. It was amazing, very clean looking, ...

In the wake of disastrous floods in Texas, concerns about cloud seeding technology have run rampant. The technology sounds fantastical—like the doings of a comic book villain—but scientists say the ...