Many of our viewers have captured pictures of rainbow clouds and this is actually called cloud iridescence. Meteorologist ...

Some Coloradans have noticed rainbow clouds over the past few days? This is actually a rare phenomenon called "cloud ...

Mackerel skies: a sky filled with rows of cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds that resemble the scales of a mackerel fish.

These root names can be combined to describe more complex cloud types—like cirrocumulus. The prefix “alto” (meaning “high”) helps distinguish mid-level clouds from their lower-level ...

Cirrocumulus: Thin, white clouds that also appear like a patchy sheet or layer, but arranged somewhat-regularly into grains or ripples without shading. They are high-level clouds and are short-lived.

Cirrocumulus: Thin, white clouds that also appear like a patchy sheet or layer, but arranged somewhat-regularly into grains or ripples without shading. They are high-level clouds and are short-lived.

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 ...

There are three main types of lenticular clouds: altocumulus standing lenticular (ACSL), stratocumulus standing lenticular (SCSL), and cirrocumulus standing lenticular (CCSL), varying in altitude ...

S ince altocumulus or cirrocumulus clouds often cover a wide area, several of these holes may appear on the horizon, especially in busy flight paths.