Fallstreak holes, also called cavum, sometimes occur when airplanes fly through certain clouds high in the atmosphere.

Orographic lift isn't the only way mountains can influence cloud formation. As air begins its descent down the mountain, it can get caught in a layer of stability.

Rain is one of nature’s most fascinating processes, yet most people take it for granted. Every drop that falls from the sky ...

A strangely elongated cloud named the Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud or AMEC. ESA/GCP/UPV/EHU Bilbao. There’s an unusual feature in the skies of Mars: a huge, elongated cloud stretching over 1,100 ...

Cloud seeding boosts rain by just 5–15% in ideal conditions. Experts clarify it can’t cause devastating floods like the ...

The paper is a follow-up to a previous PNAS paper, by the same research team, titled "Precipitation Formation from Orographic Cloud Seeding," which was published in January 2018.

Bill says he has notice satellite animations which seem, at some times, to show clouds that look like they are standing still over mountains. In some ways they ar, and Orographic clouds stand still ...

An e-mail from Harriet says she has noticed satellite animations which seem, at times, to show clouds that look as if they are standing still over mountains. Orographic clouds tend to remain ...

Zaremba, T. J., and co-authors, 2022: Vertical Motions in Orographic Cloud Systems over the Payette River Basin. Part 1: Recovery of Vertical Motions and their Uncertainty from Airborne Doppler Radial ...

Sea of clouds (SOC) formation was observed over three years in Nagano Prefecture. Large-scale SOCs were commonly observed in early morning, while small-scale SOCs in the eastern valley ...

Orographic lift can also create unique climates on and around mountains. On the windward side of large mountains, where rising moist air condenses into dense clouds, a lot of rain and snow can ...

Capital Weather Gang A really cool cloud swept over D.C. on Tuesday. Here’s what caused it. An long orographic cloud was visible from Fredericksburg to Annapolis around sunset on Tuesday ...