This type of turbulence is generally caused when strong winds hit a mountain range (mostly perpendicular) and their flow is ...

When a front moves through or on just a regular day we can see middle tiered clouds here at home. Altocumulus clouds ...

Lenticular Clouds Lenticular clouds, with their distinctive lens shape, often hover over mountain ranges like alien spaceships. These stationary clouds form when moist air flows over mountains or ...

Lenticular clouds, named for their lens or saucer-like ... layered rock formations that are often referred to as "rainbow mountains." In spring billions of sardines migrate north across the ...

It shows a mountain encircled by clouds. “Is that a lenticular cloud on that mountain?” the captain asks. She picks up her binoculars and has a look for herself. “No,” she says ...

lenticular clouds usually found where the jetstream crosses mountains as over the northern Canadian rockies, and low stratus and fog off Californian coast over the Great Lakes and in the ...

As new sea passages open up, the commercial and defence possibilities are becoming irresistible. To take advantage, America desperately needs ships ...

Once upon a time, artist Bill Steidel settled in a village that had a “brilliant beach with one lonely rock.” With dragons ...

A high-density rain gauge observational network in Taiwan reveals that multiple precipitation peaks exist over the mountainous island during summer afternoon convection. This contrasts with previous ...

And now for something completely different: NASA’s Curiosity rover captured a feather-shaped cloud glowing in the Martian sky shortly after sunset on the Red Planet. It dates back to January ...

A great example of the effects can be seen in the Red Planet’s noctilucent clouds. Latin for “night shining,” noctilucent clouds (also known as twilight clouds) are responsible for Earth’s ...