Why do some clouds look like cotton balls while others look like flying saucers? The shapes of clouds reveal different things about changing weather patterns.

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 ...

Image by: Michael Samadani, in Baytown from Sunday's storms. Sent using Click2Pins (Copyright 2025 by KPRC Click2Houston - All rights reserved.) They look intense ...

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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 ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - The viewer questions keep coming! Mark & Evelyn from Rostraver asked: "We once saw a huge roll cloud parallel to I-70 in Ohio east of Columbus. It was amazing, very clean looking, ...

Mammatus clouds are pouchlike formations that hang from the base of storm clouds, signaling turbulence in the atmosphere but ...

On Friday, the skies over parts of B.C.'s South Coast became dark and eerie with strange-looking clouds, but they didn't cause any weather issues. So, what were they? Asperitas clouds, which weren’t ...

Social media was buzzing with pictures and videos of what many people in the Atlanta area thought was a tornado Tuesday evening. However, I instantly identified it as a “scud cloud” and so did several ...

PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. — A beautiful and relatively rare sight was captured Wednesday evening over Palm Beach County as a rainbow cloud formed. Cloud iridescence is also called a rainbow cloud or a ...