Above: Marine stratocumulus clouds in the Pacific off the coast of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula on September 12, 2018. Northwesterly winds are creating a spiraling Kármán vortex street in the ...

Today, 10 basic cloud forms are recognized, all of which owe a debt to Howard's nomenclature. Some are low-level clouds that exist below 6,500 feet, such as cumulus, stratus, and stratocumulus.

Spinning columns of air take many forms, from areas of high and low pressure, to much smaller scale ranging from harmless ...

Weather Did you see it? Here’s what made D.C.’s sunset so dazzling on Thursday. A conveniently placed cloud deck, perfect sun angle and ‘gravity waves’ played a role ...

If CO2 levels rise above 1,200 ppm — where they’d be in roughly a century if emissions continue at the current rate — stratocumulus clouds would begin to disappear, according to the report.

The sky may have caught your attention recently with some uncommon clouds over our area, making it a great time to learn the difference between many types of clouds.

However, they can also develop under altostratus, altocumulus and stratocumulus clouds. They are a rare occurrence of sinking air within a cloud. Most clouds form from rising air.

Weather officials say different types of clouds can tell you what kind of weather to expect. Here's a look at the different types.

Actinoform clouds generally form lower in the atmosphere (around 6,600 feet above Earth), over water, in areas where stratocumulus clouds are common.

Detecting drizzle in its early stages in marine stratocumulus clouds is important for studying how water in clouds becomes rainfall. However, detecting the initial stages of drizzle is challenging ...

Cloud science Stratocumulus clouds above the north-western Pacific Ocean, about 460 miles east of northern Honshu, Japan. (Courtesy: Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center) For all ...

One-year experiment to study clouds launches at La Jolla’s Scripps Pier and Mount Soledad More than 1,400 weather balloons will be sent into the atmosphere over the next year to gather data for ...