But what is even more intriguing is that their appearance can give insight into what the weather will be like in the near ...

Clouds are categorized into three main groups based on their altitude: cirrus, cumulus, and stratus. Cirrus clouds are high-altitude clouds, often appearing as thin, wispy strands. They are ...

PREMIUM Where are they going? They just won’t say: Cumulus clouds race across the sky. (Shutterstock) At any given moment, the sky over two-thirds of the planet’s surface is covered by clouds.

The fluffy ring is made up of cumulus clouds that have been sculpted into a Rayleigh-Benard convection cell — a meteorological phenomenon powered by the rising and falling of air that's been ...

IN 1933 Bergeron1 postulated that rain falls only from clouds which contain both water drops and ice crystals. Natural cumulus clouds at temperatures above -13° C. often contain only supercooled ...