NASA's Aqua satellite snapped this stunning image of cloud streetsaround Greenland's southern tip on March 6. Cloud streets are bands of cumulus clouds that form parallel to the low-level wind ...

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 ...

The Cloudspotting team used data from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to observe when and where water and carbon dioxide clouds cluster over the Red Planet. When you purchase through links on our site ...

The Basic Building Blocks Every Cloud Needs Clouds need two essential ingredients to form, and both must be present simultaneously for the process to begin. There are two ingredients needed for clouds ...

While clouds are dropping rainfall on the Bay Area, a study is raising new questions about what they might do in the future. If you're trying to document the effects of climate change, you'd ...

Weather forecasting can often seem as arcane as gazing into a crystal ball, but the skill lies in analyzing current conditions, identifying weather patterns and applying climatology to produce a ...

An innovative network approach to explain polygonal patterns in clouds could help scientists find more accurate descriptions of clouds in computer models of weather and climate change. Polygons are ...

Cloud-watchers can talk all about the interesting shapes they've noticed over the years. They may have been gazing out the ...

There’s a deceptively simple number at the heart of the science of climate change: the sensitivity of Earth’s climate system to an addition of greenhouse gas like CO 2. This variable gets defined in ...