Satellite imagery showed rows of puffy, towerlike clouds known as altocumulus castellanus forming over Los Angeles County — a telltale sign that the atmosphere is primed with the ingredients for ...

These unique clouds can be found amongst two cloud types: altocumulus and stratocumulus. These two cloud types are low to mid level clouds and are common ahead of storms, but added turbulence can ...

Finally, I got some cool pictures yesterday via Instagram of some altocumulus floccus clouds. Not unusual, but good examples. Pic via Karen Taylor: Some refer to these as “jellyfish” clouds.

WAVY 10’s Chief Meteorologist Emeritus Don Slater identified this phenomenon as a fallstreak hole, a large gap formed in altocumulus or cirrocumulus clouds that are caused by supercooled water ...

Fallstreak holes are circular or elliptical holes in altocumulus or cirrocumulus clouds. These clouds are made up of tiny water droplets at extremely cold temperatures. The water droplets do not ...

These clouds will gradually thicken and lower, transitioning into altocumulus or altostratus clouds. They may develop into cumulonimbus clouds, which indicate thunderstorms along the front.

An eerie UFO-shaped cloud stunned residents in Australia. Harry Reay and his friends witnessed the southerly buster roll cloud forming in the clear skies over Cronulla in Sydney, New South Wales ...

Altocumulus clouds act as a visual cue for a changing weather pattern. These are the types of clouds that appear ahead of a strong cold front and are a common sight. They indicate the presence of ...

John Wheeler is Chief Meteorologist for WDAY, a position he has had since May of 1985. Wheeler grew up in the South, in Louisiana and Alabama, and cites his family's move to the Midwest as ...

A recent satellite image captured the reemergence of a unique, UFO-like cloud, known as the "Taieri Pet," which appears above New Zealand's South Island when conditions are just right.

Though it sounds like alien sci-fi, there's a perfectly reasonable explanation: the peculiar cloud is an altocumulus standing lenticular cloud (ASLC), according to NASA, which is created when ...