Occurring on humid days and called “sheep backs,” altocumulus clouds look like fluffy herds of sheep in the sky. If you go to grab an umbrella, it’s likely that you saw a nimbostratus cloud ...

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 computing and blue-sky thinking: An atmospheric scientist illuminates the science of clouds in Earth’s sky and beyond. Studying the physics and microphysics of cloud formation and behavior in ...

Every day, members of the Cloud Appreciation Society post photos of the sky from around the world. This is why they stop to look up. By Josephine Sedgwick Suzanne Winckler “It’s always a good ...

"I am a sugar beet smokestack in a gray, cloudy sky -- but I know there is blue sky above it all. I should never forget the blue sky." I wrote that in a notebook during an October 2007 weekend ...

Saturday celebrated wind, clouds, blue sky and brilliant sunset. In D.C. the day demonstrated autumn’s scenic assets in the air and on the ground. November 23, 2024. 2 min. By Martin Weil.