How are clouds’ shapes made? A scientist explains the different cloud types and how they help forecast the weather. Just4Kids.

People think of stratus clouds when they picture dreary, cloudy days, because they paint the sky entirely grey. They can float to the ground to create fog. Sometimes they block the sun completely ...

If you like thick, gray, stratus clouds, this was your day! The clouds suppressed the heating, and our high was only 52. The record is 77 set in 1906. Personally, it felt cold and gloomy today ...

Stratus clouds lay like a blanket, often lowest in the sky. These clouds can look like elevated fog or continuously flat and gray with little distinction in shape. They often bring rain. Even without ...

There are many ice clouds associated with tranquil weather that are simply regions of the atmosphere with more moisture but not precipitation. Fog and stratus clouds Clouds are a result of ...

When clouds form thick layers, we add the word “stratus”, or “layer”, to the name. Stratus can occur just above the ground, or a bit higher up – we call it altostratus then. It can occur ...