Clouds that look like cartoon cotton balls or cauliflower are made up of tiny liquid water droplets and are called cumulus clouds. Often, these are fair-weather clouds that form when the Sun warms the ...

A powerful spring weather system is poised to bring a significant severe weather outbreak from the Great Lakes to the lower Mississippi River Valley on Friday. Houston misses the worst of the storms, ...

As we look at the skies over vast distances, it's our perspective that creates the illusion of the clouds converging to a far away point. Seen from this angle in Felixstowe, Suffolk, it's easier ...

Clouds that look like cartoon cotton balls or cauliflower are made up of tiny liquid water droplets and are called cumulus clouds. Often, these are fair-weather clouds that form when the Sun warms ...

the cloud bands are in fact running parallel to each other. As we look at the skies over vast distances, it's our perspective that creates the illusion of the clouds converging to a far away point.

Lenticular clouds, for example, can look like flying saucers hovering just above, or near, mountaintops. Lenticular clouds can actually form far from mountains, as wind over a mountain range ...