Often, these are fair-weather clouds that form when the sun warms the ground and the warm air rises. You’ll often see them on ...

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 even higher ...

It describes the clouds that hover at the edge of our perception: the low-slung Stratus clouds that cling ... I watched her reading, her finger tracing the outlines of Cumulus and Cirrus, and ...