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NASA spotted a circle of clouds over the Pacific Ocean, and the image is still breathtaking over 10 years later.
How Are Clouds’ Shapes Made? Explore the diverse world of cloud formations, from ground-level fog to high-flying cirrus ...
How are clouds’ shapes made? A scientist explains the different cloud types and how they help forecast the weather. Just4Kids.
A 2014 satellite image captured a rare glimpse of a massive, eerily circular ring of clouds that formed slap-bang in the ...
When clouds form thick layers, we add the word “stratus”, or “layer”, to the name. Stratus can occur just above the ground, or a bit higher up – we call it altostratus then. It can occur ...
Known as Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds, they form when a faster stream of air moves above rising air below. According to the Met Office website, Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds are "an extremely rare phenomenon".
We haven’t figured out exactly what gives them their shape, determines altitude – or makes them rain when they do. But ...
What’s more, “hydrophilic” or water-loving polymers were abundant, suggesting the particles play a significant role in rapid cloud formation and thus climate systems. “If the issue of ‘p ...