Bizarre, beautiful clouds—known as mother-of-pearl clouds because they resemble the inside of a pearl oyster shell—have been caught on camera high in the sky over Norway. These polar stratospheric ...

"It's a beautiful cloud but not unusual," she said. "It's a nearly textbook cumulonimbus, or thunderstorm cloud." According to Gardner, "A front helped create a line of storms across the central part ...

A blanket of strange pock-marked clouds has been spotted by NASA satellites off the coast of Chile. A picture of the beautiful cloud formations taken in August last year was featured as NASA Earth ...

I’m a meteorologist, and I’ve been fascinated by weather since I was 8 years old. I grew up in Minnesota, where the weather changes from wind-whipping blizzards in winter to severe thunderstorms – ...

Noctilucent clouds form at the edge of space, more than 80 kilometers above Earth, in the coldest part of the atmosphere.

The age of the noctilucent cloud is upon us. Night-shining clouds are historically rare, beautiful formations of shimmering ice crystals hanging in the upper atmosphere that were only visible in the ...

These are Mattis clouds, say hello to the Mattis clouds. They are cellular patches that hang at the base of clouds, commonly there, *** cumulonimbus clouds, but sometimes they can attach themselves to ...

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