I love the different forms they take. There are the puffy cotton ball-like clouds against the blue sky — those iconic cumulus clouds. There are curlicue cirrus clouds wafting high above made of ice.

These often bring light drizzle or mist. Stratocumulus: Low, lumpy clouds that can form in patches or sheets with breaks of blue sky. Cumulus: The classic “fair weather” clouds—puffy and ...

At the same time, openings appeared in the convoys of clouds, permitting glimpses of the puffy whiteness of billowing cumulus behind them, surrounded by blue sky. On occasion, for brief minutes ...

Cumulus clouds, on the other hand ... This scattering makes them look bright and white against the blue sky. However, clouds ...

Puffy cumulus and drab stratus are mainstays ... overhead like strings in an endless tapestry of grey and blue sky. These wave clouds are a mainstay in the skies downwind from mountains, most ...

Content continues below Ice crystals floating in a high, thin layer of cirrostratus may allow blue ... cumulus clouds that would form closer to the ground. If you’ve ever seen a mackerel sky ...

On Saturday, in Washington, November flung off the gray mask it wore on Friday and once more dazzled the city with the glories of late autumn, with blue ... many clouds shared the sky, they ...

These clouds are known as trade cumulus. While trade cumulus clouds are small and relatively unspectacular, they are numerous and very widely found in the tropics, according to Bony. Because there ...