Why do some clouds look like cotton balls while others look like flying saucers? The shapes of clouds reveal different things ...

The air around and above us always has some water vapor and some particles in it. The particles could be dust or salt or even ...

Is it a flying elephant? A gingerbread man? When I was little, I used to search the clouds for amusing shapes as they drifted across the sky and imagine stories about their patterns. Now I'm a ...

Ever looked up at the clouds and wondered where they came from? That's exactly what atmospheric researcher Lubna Dada studies at the Paul Scherrer Institute. She is part of an international project ...

On October 3, 2025, in Surfside Beach, South Carolina, USA, @catsunrisechick shared a video showing the early formation of a funnel cloud. In the video, the author is driving along a residential ...

The right mix of hot, humid, rising air can produce some of the most powerful weather phenomena on the planet.

It's not uncommon for the human eye to pick out familiar-seeming shapes among clouds in the sky, nor for the human mind to experience, however briefly, the sensation that such a resemblance is more ...