NORFOLK, Va. — Spotting a cumulus cloud is pretty easy. The clouds resemble pieces of cotton candy, but why are cumulus clouds fluffy and not flat?

They had a pretty good grasp on eclipses and even predicted the solar eclipse of 1991. ... Cumulus clouds have been known to disappear once about 15% of the Sun has been covered, ...

Cumulus clouds are pretty easy to spot. They’re the classic cloud shape: big, fluffy, white cotton balls in the sky. These usually mean fair weather; when you see them, ...

Cumulus clouds are the pretty clouds that look like white cotton balls floating in the sky. And then you have Cumulonimbus, which are thunderstorms. From a distance they look like huge mountains ...

Lesson: don’t think a pretty, white cumulus cloud building is innocent; it may pack a very hard punch.) An addendum for today’s Nexrad-enlightened pilots is, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Maybe you know two kinds of clouds: pretty and ominous. Or maybe you know a few scientific terms: blanket stratus and puffy cumulus. Regardless, there are many different types of ...

Cumulus clouds don't literally have silver linings, but their edges are sharper than we thought. Bennewitz/iStock. A child’s drawing of the sky usually shows puffy, balloon-like clouds standing ...

Sellers said cumulus clouds can be puffier and they’ll appear as individual cells. ... but often she said high clouds in Dallas-Fort Worth are pretty thin and some sunshine filters through them.

This kid is on cloud nine: Dad creates ‘Princess Cumulus’ with thunderstorm costume for Halloween. by Kurt Schlosser on October 27, 2016 at 3:13 pm October 27, 2016 at 3:13 pm.

Those cloud formations have been named pretty much based on what they look like: Cloud streets. They are, obviously, fair weather clouds and form when warm air rises and cool air sinks in a nice ...