To understand how clouds get their shape, it helps to understand the basics of how they form. When air rises and cools, the water vapor it holds condenses into tiny water droplets or ice crystals. If ...

Stratus clouds look a lot like nimbostratus clouds. LivingShadow/Wikimedia Commons. 8. Stratus. Stratus clouds are gray layers, sometimes with variances in their luminescence.

Low clouds like stratus and cumulus float close to the ground, often appearing thick and heavy. Mid-level clouds, such as altocumulus, are found higher up and look more patchy or layered.

Puffy, wispy, white and gray, we’ve seen them all this spring. Clouds come in a variety of types, and each type comes with ...

Maciel’s favorite cloud looks a bit like a cirrus cloud, ... Stratus clouds also create gloomy days as they cover the sky in a low sheet of dingy white.

Then the stratus clouds turning the sky into hazy gray mush or descending into an eye level fog. ... There are those other times when the clouds look for all the world like mountain ranges.

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.

Lenticular clouds, for example, can look like flying saucers hovering just above, or near, mountaintops. Lenticular clouds can actually form far from mountains, as wind over a mountain range ...

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 ...