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.

A landspout was spotted outside Berthoud, Colorado, on Wednesday, March 19.Video captured by Stephanie Lea shows the funnel swirl over a field near Country Road 8, east of Berthoud.Landspouts are ...

They are rooted in the planetary boundary layer near the surface similar to other cumuliform-type clouds. An overcast stratocumulus deck can extend for hundreds of miles making them difficult to ...

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 ...