TOLEDO, Ohio — Clouds are one of the fundamentals of how weather works across the world. From shelf clouds to funnel clouds, each is unique and has scientific explanations as to how it is formed and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With Michigan's changeable weather, residents get to see a lot of different cloud formations — fluffy cumulus, wispy cirrus and dark, threatening cumulonimbus — and recognizing what weather each type ...

The clouds over the Bay Area have been spectacular in recent days with vaporous masses of condensed moisture creating poetry overhead. In San Francisco, we're used to looking up and seeing either blue ...

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 ...

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 ...

Astronomers have identified a giant streak structure among the clouds covering planet Venus based on observation from the spacecraft Akatsuki. The team also revealed the origins of this structure ...