News Weather The science behind clouds and how to remember their (latin) names Mon., June 23, 2025 Storm clouds gather above a train in 2023 as it rolls through the Pleasantview Road crossing near ...

People who study the weather, called meteorologists, have several different names for clouds. The name changes based on how the clouds look. These differently shaped clouds can also tell you how ...

Howard describes clouds with conical shapes increasing upward from a flat base as "cumulus" from the Latin term for "heap." A bit more colorfully, he also described them as "wool bag clouds." ...

NOAA satellites captured actinoform clouds over the eastern Pacific Ocean on June 3, 2021. These collections of shallow clouds, organized in a distinctive radial pattern, often appear as leaf-like or ...

The Latin names of winter clouds mostly contain the word, stratus, meaning "layer." Names like altostratus, nimbostratus and just plain stratus will layer up to hide the sun more days than not ...

“The Magellanic Clouds are this amazing laboratory for seeing things up close and personal,” says astronomer Sally Oey of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, a supporter of the name change.