The Basic Building Blocks Every Cloud Needs Clouds need two essential ingredients to form, and both must be present ...

Have you ever looked up at the clouds in the sky and wondered how they form? Understanding cloud formation is really important for studying weather patterns and making accurate forecasts. Those clouds ...

Ever looked up at the clouds and wondered where they came from? That's exactly what atmospheric researcher Lubna Dada studies at the Paul Scherrer Institute. She is part of an international project ...

This week's question comes from Regina, who asks about one of the basic elements of our weather, "Why do clouds form?" Meteorologist Rob Shackelford: This might sound like a weird analogy, but I need ...

Answer: Clouds form when sufficiently moist air is cooled to the dew point temperature of the air or below, so that either liquid water droplets form on cloud condensation nuclei, or in the case of ...

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 – ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Clouds are one of the fundamentals of how weather works across the world. From shelf clouds to funnel clouds, each is unique and has scientific explanations as to how it is formed and ...

Only one side of a silver crystal has the right structure to trigger ice formation, revealing how these particles help clouds ...

The first report of this unusual cloud appeared in Weather magazine in 1948, in an article titled “Man-Made Cirrus?” The ...