A “roll cloud” spotted off the coast of Portugal looked like something out of a movie. Here’s the science behind it.

What is the ocean floor made of, and why are some clouds flat on top? We explore the curious questions that science can answer Wednesday 27 October 2021 21:30 BST ...

Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds may be beautiful to view while on solid ground, but it's less wonderful for people in aircrafts. To pilots, they mean instability and turbulence.

But in 2014, NASA’s Terra satellite captured a near-perfect circle of clouds hovering above the Pacific Ocean. Spotted a few thousand kilometers southwest of Hawaii, this unusual ring floated ...

Wave clouds are a result of atmospheric internal waves, which are fluctuations in the air formed when air moves over areas of higher ground, being forced upwards, before being pulled down again by ...

Smoke causes a haze at the Ocean County Airport, in Toms River NJ, on Sunday, September 3, 2023.

Clouds have many names. There are the most popular cumulus, cirrus and stratus clouds. Then, there are more obscure cloud names like Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds. Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds are also rare ...

In the early morning of Nov. 3, Colorado Springs was socked in with fog. But if you happened to climb on top of the hills, you would have seen a lapping ocean of clouds. On an average day — the ...

Result (as you see at top): clouds don’t form as easily, letting more sun in, making the heating problem even worse. The process could contribute as much as 8 or 10 degrees to warming in the ...

When the upper layer of air is moving at a higher speed than the lower layer air, it may shove the top of an existing cloud. This causes the clouds to look like breaking waves in the ocean ...