Meteorologists are highlighting how rare formations like pileus clouds, sun dogs, and halos can act as early visual cues of atmospheric instability. These phenomena form through specific interactions ...

To each their own, whatever floats your boat, but for some folks, the simple joy of looking at the clouds, particularly rare ...

Looking up at the sky might seem like a simple pastime, but for those who know what to watch for, clouds tell stories that could save your life. Most of us walk around barely noticing the atmosphere ...

Weather forecasting can often seem as arcane as gazing into a crystal ball, but the skill lies in analyzing current conditions, identifying weather patterns and applying climatology to produce a ...

We have another question to answer! Jim asks: "Hey, Ray, I recently heard about shelf clouds. They are an eerie sight indeed! Can you give a brief synopsis of how these fronts form?" Shelf clouds do ...

Mammatus clouds are some of the most visually striking and unusual cloud formations in the sky. They appear as rounded, pouchlike lobes that hang down from the base of a cloud, usually under ...