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 ...

When's the last time you went cloud-gazing? Sinking, rising, spreading, changing—there’s always something exciting happening to the clouds overhead. The big puffy ones—what are they called? And the ...

An innovative network approach to explain polygonal patterns in clouds could help scientists find more accurate descriptions of clouds in computer models of weather and climate change. Polygons are ...

The atmosphere is full of tiny particles floating invisible to the naked eye, yet these microscopic specks wield ...

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 ...

Astronomers have identified a giant streak structure among the clouds covering planet Venus based on observation from the spacecraft Akatsuki. The team also revealed the origins of this structure ...

The clouds over the Bay Area have been spectacular in recent days with vaporous masses of condensed moisture creating poetry overhead. In San Francisco, we're used to looking up and seeing either blue ...

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 ...