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

How does a cloud stay cool under direct sunlight—or seem to vanish in infrared? In nature, phenomena like white cumulus ...

While it can vary, scientists follow a general consensus of water content per cubic meter for each cloud type: cirrus have 0.03 grams, stratus contain 0.2 grams, and cumulus contain 0.5 grams.

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

What do I need to make a cloud? Can I make a cloud at home? Join CU Wizards on January 25th when Dr. Katja Friedrich, a physicist who has ventured into the Alps and Rocky Mountains to better ...

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 ...

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

With the recent couple days of non severe, isolated storms in the area, News Director Doug Raflik used images and video he ...

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 ...

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 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.

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.