I’m a meteorologist, and I’ve been fascinated by weather since I was 8 years old. I grew up in Minnesota, where the weather changes from wind-whipping blizzards in winter to severe thunderstorms – ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — New research provides insights into how cirrus clouds form, with implications for agriculture, urban development and climate-change predictions. The study shows that trees and ...

Question: What is the difference between a cloud higher or lower in the sky? What are stratus and cirrus clouds? — Jayden Wilkins Answer: Stratus clouds are smooth clouds that usually occur in the ...

Cirrus and cirrocumulus clouds are needed for fallstreak clouds to form and those are more common in Florida during winter ...

I’m a meteorologist, and I’ve been fascinated by weather since I was 8 years old. I grew up in Minnesota, where the weather changes from wind-whipping blizzards in winter to severe thunderstorms – ...

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 ...

Contrails form when hot, moist jet exhaust condenses and freezes into ice crystals upon entering the cold upper atmosphere.

Long-lived contrails form predominantly not in cloud-free skies, but within already existing ice clouds. This is the conclusion reached by a team of scientists from Forschungszentrum Jülich, the ...

It bears repeating: the world is complicated. Oh, it looks simple enough: your coffee pours from pot to cup, round things roll but square things don’t, stuff that goes up will come back down (usually) ...