Clouds need two essential ingredients to form, and both must be present simultaneously for the process to begin. There are two ingredients needed for clouds to form: water and nuclei. The first ...

Have you ever looked up at the clouds in the sky and wondered how they form? Understanding cloud formation is really important for studying weather patterns and making accurate forecasts. Those clouds ...

Answer: Clouds form when sufficiently moist air is cooled to the dew point temperature of the air or below, so that either liquid water droplets form on cloud condensation nuclei, or in the case of ...

With Michigan's changeable weather, residents get to see a lot of different cloud formations — fluffy cumulus, wispy cirrus and dark, threatening cumulonimbus — and recognizing what weather each type ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — In this edition of Science Sunday, we’re going to be learning how clouds form, and the best way to do that is to make one for ourselves! Add a small amount of rubbing ...

Clouds form when water vapor—an invisible gas in the atmosphere—sticks to tiny floating particles, such as dust, and turns into liquid water droplets or ice crystals. In a newly published study, we ...

Graduate students analyze cloud formation data with research scientist Jesse Anderson, using the Pi Cloud Chamber to study atmospheric processes. × Michigan Tech's Pi Cloud Chamber is giving ...

MOLINE, Ill. — No doubt our skies have been a lot more active recently thanks to a slow-moving upper-level low-pressure system lingering across the Midwest. This has brought not only welcome rainfall ...

This week's question comes from Regina, who asks about one of the basic elements of our weather, "Why do clouds form?" Meteorologist Rob Shackelford: This might sound like a weird analogy, but I need ...

Airplanes form invisible ice clouds that trap heat. Study explains why contrails matter and how aviation warming has been ...

Over the last several weeks News5 viewers have sent our news and weather teams dozens of photos of sunrises and sunsets filled with brilliant orange clouds. Here's a primer on how these clouds form ...

A conflict-driven reroute of international ships exposed how dramatically cleaner fuel reduces cloud formation.