How does a cloud stay cool under direct sunlight––or seem to vanish in infrared? In nature, phenomena like white cumulus ...

Have you ever gazed up at the sky and wondered why clouds look so incredibly different from one another? One moment, you spot fluffy cotton ... Read more The post What Makes Clouds Look So Different?

To understand how clouds get their shape, it helps to understand the basics of how they form. When air rises and cools, the ...

This cool time-lapse clip showcases the amazing way cumulonimbus clouds form, shift, grow, and move across the sky, proving that even "ordinary" fluffy clouds are anything but placid.

Mammatus cloud: A drooping cumulonimbus cloud in its latter stage of development (has a pouch-like appearance). These clouds are often are seen hanging from the anvil of a severe thunderstorm, but ...

Mammatus cloud: A drooping cumulonimbus cloud in its latter stage of development (has a pouch-like appearance). These clouds are often are seen hanging from the anvil of a severe thunderstorm, but ...

An excerpt from ‘The Hidden Forest,’ by Radhika Jha. When his father died, Kosuke was in the sky somewhere between Los Angeles and New York, feeling about as content as he had ever been.

Wispy Cirrus Are Ice Clouds. When cumulonimbus clouds grow high enough into the atmosphere, the temperature becomes cold enough for ice clouds, or cirrus, to form. Clouds made up entirely of ice are ...