To understand how clouds get their shape, it helps to understand the basics of how they form. When air rises and cools, the ...

Puffy, wispy, white and gray, we’ve seen them all this spring. Clouds come in a variety of types, and each type comes with ...

Clouds that look like cartoon cotton balls or cauliflower are made up of tiny liquid water droplets and are called cumulus clouds. Often, these are fair-weather clouds that form when the Sun warms ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Spotting a cumulus cloud is pretty easy. The clouds resemble pieces of cotton candy, but why are cumulus clouds fluffy and not flat? To fully understand why, we need to start with ...

Cloud streets are simply long rows of cumulus clouds that develop parallel to the direction of the wind. ... Cloud streets ...

Cumulus clouds form when the warmth from the ground rises (and there is enough moisture in the environment to create clouds). As the warm air rises, it gradually cools.

A USGS website gave an estimate that a typical cumulus cloud may contain 1 billion cubic meters. If density is considered 0.5 grams of cloud droplets within that given volume, the mass is 500,000 ...

Cumulus clouds form in the sky over Santa Fe, New Mexico. (Photo by Robert Alexander/Getty Images) Clouds are saturated parcels of air. Water molecules also have weight.

What kind of clouds were they and how do they form? ... Warm, rising air creates long lines of cumulus clouds, while cool, sinking air creates cloud-free zones in between cloud formations.