Air movement also affects cloud shapes. As warm, moist air rises—a process known as convection—it cools and condenses, forming clouds.

While wave clouds like this are not unusual, this particular pattern over the Aral Sea is highly unusual. The clouds conform exactly to the shape of the western shore.

As Earth warms, scientists are concerned about whether climate change is impacting the height of the clouds.

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Every day, members of the Cloud Appreciation Society post photos of the sky from around the world. This is why they stop to look up.

Observers spotted saucer-shaped clouds in Hawaiian skies above the Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa volcanoes.

What gives clouds their shapes? What are the clouds like where you are? We’re on a mission to find out why some are puffy like cotton wool whilst some stretch out in flat sheets to the horizon.

Miyu Distribution has acquired Dominican mixed-technique animated feature 'Olivia & The Clouds' ahead of the film's Locarno premiere.

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To understand how clouds get their shape, it helps to understand the basics of how they form. When air rises and cools, the water vapor it holds condenses into tiny water droplets or ice crystals.

Marnie turns to the skies to figure out how clouds form and how they get their shapes.