Scientists are discovering that clumping clouds supercharge storms in surprising ways — driving heavy, deadly rainfall and ...

As a scholar researching clouds, I have spent much of my time trying to understand the economy of the sky. Not the weather ...

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 – ...

High above the familiar cotton wool of weather systems, a stranger kind of cloud is quietly rewriting what we think we know ...

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 – ...

A new type of lidar is allowing physicists to study cloud tops at a resolution 100 to 1,000 times higher than before.

With Michigan's changeable weather, residents get to see a lot of different cloud formations — fluffy cumulus, wispy cirrus and dark, threatening cumulonimbus — and recognizing what weather each type ...

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, ...

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