Social media was buzzing with pictures and videos of what many people in the Atlanta area thought was a tornado Tuesday evening. However, I instantly identified it as a “scud cloud” and so did several ...

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 ...

I'm weirdly into clouds. I'm not a meteorologist or a climate scientist. I don't even know that much about clouds. I just really like them. Whenever I'm outside or near a window, my eye is drawn up to ...

Did you know that certain kinds of clouds can help predict the weather? I love answering questions about weather and science, and I got a great question from Brent. He saw some strange looking clouds ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. If you're in the northern hemisphere and it's been a clear ...

Substantial fires can make their own weather – and do it in several ways. The most common weather phenomena wildfires can create include pyrocumulus clouds, fire tornadoes and smoke clouds that cause ...

The skies above Dublin, Ireland, and northeast England became a spectacular site of "utterly transfixing" iridescent lights Thursday morning. Rare "rainbow clouds" formed in the early morning, ...

Mr. Pretor-Pinney is an author in Somerset, Britain, and the founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society. I love the way clouds billow above your head, drift lazily across blue skies and cast fleeting ...

The sky over northeast New Hampshire didn’t even look real Sunday. Chaotic clouds, sculpted into undulating contortions, resembled a roaring, angry ocean. An exceptional display of “asperitas” clouds ...

A recent study suggests a relationship between solar cycles and the atmosphere of the solar system’s eighth planet. By Robin George Andrews Each planet of the solar system has its own look. Earth has ...