A new study shows that natural dust particles swirling in from faraway deserts can trigger freezing of clouds in Earth's ...

Arcus clouds are a low, horizontal cloud formation that are typically associated with the leading edge of a thunderstorm or ...

To explain cloud seeding, first you need to know how clouds form. Clouds form when water vapor and gas rises, cools and ...

The line of storms Friday evening gave us some spectacular views of what is known as a shelf cloud. Often times the shelf cloud can appear to be expanding from one end of the horizon to the other ...

Inside the cloud, ice crystals and water droplets collide, generating static electricity, which can lead to lightning. This produces thunder, rain, and occasionally even tornadoes.

Japanese weather officials say bands of heavy rain clouds could form in Okinawa's Daitojima region late into the night, ...

When clouds form thick layers, we add the word “stratus,” or “layer,” to the name. Stratus can occur just above the ground, or a bit higher up – we call it altostratus then.

Stratus clouds form when a large, moist air mass gradually cools as it rises. This cooling causes the water vapor in the air to condense, resulting in a thick, gray layer of clouds that covers the ...

Rain is liquid precipitation that forms and lands on the Earth's surface in this form. For this type of precipitation to happen, the temperatures of the layers it travels through must be above ...

Monday the sweltering heat is kicking into high gear with dense morning fog and temps in the upper 60s. As the sun rises, fog ...

Cumulus clouds are expected to form, accompanied by rains of varying intensity between Friday and next Monday, according to ...