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

Airplanes may alter the weather around airports to a small degree by punching holes in clouds and even causing snow or rain, a new study indicates. Looking at weather data from seven airports located ...

The American West is in a horrifying drought and the deleterious effect of the resulting wildfires has been felt by many in recent years. Naturally, state governments have spent millions on cloud ...

The situation in Europe has gotten worse, not better. Carried by upper-level winds, the Krakatoa-esque ash cloud from Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano has curtained several more countries in a ...

We've seen this before where the exhaust particles from the aircraft feed/seed the clouds and coalescence accelerates, resulting in the development and fallout of ice crystals. Doppler radar can ...

Airplanes may alter the weather around airports to a small degree by punching holes in clouds and even causing snow or rain, a new study indicates. Looking at weather data from seven airports located ...

Clouds may have a net warming or cooling effect on climate, depending on their thickness and altitude. Artificially formed clouds called contrails form due to aircraft effluent. In a cloudless sky, ...

To my eye, the clouds that airplane wings make on takeoff and landing look like some cool ass force field—like, a stealth shroud that envelopes the airplane as its flying around. Reality is less fun ...

Contrails from airplanes make clouds brighter, shows new research. The researchers used a combination of flight tracking data and satellites equipped with sensitive lasers for detecting small changes ...