CHICAGO (WLS) -- All clouds are made up of basically the same thing: water droplets or ice crystals that float in the sky. Cloud types are classified by appearance and location in the sky. High clouds ...

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 – ...

Nacreous clouds, or ice polar stratospheric clouds, are a rare type of cloud that forms in very cold conditions and at high altitudes. They are known for their iridescent colors, which are created ...

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 – ...

Some parts of the U.S. see well over 100 inches (2.5 meters) of snow per year. Edoardo Frola/Moment Open via Getty Images The thought of snow can conjure up images of powdery slopes, days out of ...

People who study the weather, called meteorologists, have several different names for clouds. The name changes based on how the clouds look. These differently shaped clouds can also tell you how the ...

An explainer on cloud seeding, the technique used to artificially modify clouds to produce more rainfall, including its ...

As the severe storms rolled across Michigan Tuesday, there was some ominous beauty in the sky. When storms are as strong as they were this morning, the atmosphere can have some spectacular cloud ...

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