While he has no science background, Smilde uses an artist’s fascination to create something entirely new. “Some things you just want to question for yourself and see if they can be done ...

Cumulus clouds are complex enough; those deep clouds “have 100 times the complexity,” he said. In his view, the U.S. is devoting a tremendous amount of effort to cloud research; it’s only up ...

It's a great illustration of the fact that while lenticular clouds appear to be standing still in real time, watching on video shows that there is actually quite a bit of cloud movement.