Once you understand how certain clouds develop their shapes, you can learn to forecast the weather. Clouds that look like cartoon cotton balls or cauliflower are made up of tiny liquid water droplets ...

Cloud Composition Clouds are a fascinating part of our sky, made up of countless tiny water droplets or ice crystals. When ...

If the physical calculations are done to include air molecules in the weight and reduce the limitations on the size of a cumulus cloud from the 1 km parameters, the numbers are even more staggering.

While I don’t think I have a future as a meteorologist, here are a few basics I’ve learned that allow me to look at clouds with more focus and meaning. Cumulus clouds over Big Pond that later ...

And when it comes to cooling things off, people know from experience that low, fluffy cumulus clouds do a better job than high, thin cirrus clouds. At a recent science conference, a team of NASA ...

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 ...