Experts say cloud formations do not signify a coming earthquake, contrary to claims circulating among Taiwanese social media users after a magnitude-6.0 tremor struck off the island's northeast coast ...

NOAA satellites captured actinoform clouds over the eastern Pacific Ocean on June 3, 2021. These collections of shallow clouds, organized in a distinctive radial pattern, often appear as leaf-like or ...

MOLINE, Ill — Perhaps one of the strangest appearing things in the sky you'll ever witness, this unique cloud formation comes in different sizes and shapes. It is, however, usually caused by the same ...

On December 2, 2024, a striking natural occurrence mesmerized onlookers over Wichita, Kansas, as two unique formations known as cavum clouds appeared in the midlevel sky. These fascinating structures ...

TRI-CITIES, Tenn. (WJHL) — News Channel 11 viewers captured stunning, rare clouds in the Tri-Cities Sunday. The formations are called “undulatus asperatus,” which loosely translates to roughened or ...

The 10 basic cloud types are classified by height (high, mid, low) and predict different weather patterns. Cloud names incorporate roots like cirro, strato, cumulo, nimbo, or alto, based on their ...

Odd cloud formations, known as undulatus asperatus, appear to wave across the sky over Mount Halla in the city of Jeju on South Korea's largest island of the same name on May 5, 2025. (Yonhap) (END) ...

Clouds form when water vapor—an invisible gas in the atmosphere—sticks to tiny floating particles, such as dust, and turns into liquid water droplets or ice crystals. In a newly published study, we ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — Can you name a cloud? TV 10 Anchor Darla Montgomery got some fascinating pictures, over the weekend, of a few feather clouds or wispy clouds. Anyone who gazed into the wild ...

Scientists have spotted microplastics, tiny pieces of plastic smaller than 5 millimeters, in some of the most pristine environments on Earth, from the depths of the Mariana Trench to the snow on Mt.

The clouds above Maine on April 23 were dark, swirling, and undulating, perhaps suggesting a psychedelic landscape painting — Salvador Dali meets Frederic Church? The eerie cloud formations also ...