Many of our viewers have captured pictures of rainbow clouds and this is actually called cloud iridescence. Meteorologist ...

A rainbow cloud is a similar rainbow, halo, sundog, circumhorizontal arc, because it forms due to the diffraction or refraction of light. In 2018, a similar "fire rainbow" was spotted in Vermont.

A pileus cloud or cap cloud is a small lens-shaped cloud that sits on top of a larger cloud like a hat. They can form on regular cumulus clouds, storm clouds, ash clouds from volcanoes, and even ...

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. (KTHV) - Sunday night brought much-needed rain, but the clouds are what stole the show. Our social media was flooded with an incredible picture of what looked like a halo rainbow ...

“What happens is that the cumulus cloud, boiling upwards, pushes the air layers above it higher and higher,” Cowley said. “As the air gets pushed upwards, it expands and cools.

The ‘rainbow cloud’ was spotted on August 21 in the sky above China's Haikou. Pileus cloud What was seen in the skies of Haikou on August 21 is called a 'Pileus cloud', also known as a ‘cap ...

Pileus, sometimes called cap clouds or scarf clouds, are smooth clouds that form atop a growing cumulus or cumulonimbus cloud. A typical pileus cloud above a growing thunderstorm. (Dennis Mersereau) ...

Last week, pictures of an unusually-shaped rainbow cloud that appeared over China were widely shared on social media. ... A pileus cloud is usually formed over a cumulus or cumulonimbus cloud.

These are cumulus clouds. They resemble cotton balls and form when it's warm and humid," he said. Cappucci went on: "Because the sun is near the horizon—it's sunset—it's beneath the cloud.

There are 10 main cloud types, including the fluffy-looking cumulus clouds seen here. Image: AKARADECH MARK II / Getty Images Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ...

Clouds, particularly cumulus clouds, tend to vanish during a solar eclipse such as the total solar eclipse that will occur April 8 in North America. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ ...