Why do some clouds look like cotton balls while others look like flying saucers? The shapes of clouds reveal different things ...

Have you ever looked up at the clouds in the sky and wondered how they form? Understanding cloud formation is really important for studying weather patterns and making accurate forecasts. Those clouds ...

The air around and above us always has some water vapor and some particles in it. The particles could be dust or salt or even ...

Answer: Clouds form when sufficiently moist air is cooled to the dew point temperature of the air or below, so that either liquid water droplets form on cloud condensation nuclei, or in the case of ...

The right mix of hot, humid, rising air can produce some of the most powerful weather phenomena on the planet.

Plants, plankton and sea spray all release elements that help the atmospheric blankets form Max G. Levy The view from a research aircraft that scientists use to collect data from high in Earth’s ...

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 ...

PHOENIX — Have you seen clouds that look like something from another world? No, it's not aliens or UFOs, there is a scientific explanation for these cloud formations that look like flying saucers.

An interesting phenomenon unfolded Monday in the sky over Houston as nearly perfect rows of clouds were spotted. Video submitted to us by a subscriber showed the unmistakable appearance of what are ...

Sulfur molecules come in many forms called allotropes, from S2 up to S8. The subscript indicates the number of S atoms in the allotrope. We are proposing here a new pathway to S2 formation. With S2 ...

An incredible photo was captured in southern Indiana of cloud iridescence. This photo was submitted by Bobbi Bledsoe, from French Lick, captured on Mother's Day.WLKY Chief Meteorologist Jay Cardosi ...