Weather officials say different types of clouds can tell you what kind of weather to expect. Here's a look at the different types.

From cirrus wisps to stratus blankets to cumulus puffs, clouds generally look lighter than air, unless there's a dark nimbus ...

Clouds that look like cartoon cotton balls or cauliflower are made up of tiny liquid water droplets and are called cumulus clouds ... enough for ice clouds, or cirrus, to form.

The clouds that live in this range are stratocumulus clouds, stratus clouds, and cumulus clouds ... to the National Weather Service, unlike cirrus, cirrostratus clouds form more of a widespread ...

They tend to appear on these five cloud types: cirrus, altocumulus, cumulus, stratus, and stratocumulus. But it's equally rare to find fluctus clouds in each one, according to the International ...

cumulus clouds can rapidly grow vertically into cumulonimbus. When the edges of these clouds look especially crisp, it’s a sign that heavy rain or snow may be imminent. Wispy cirrus are ice ...

Centuries later in 1803, amateur meteorologist Luke Howard authored an essay that named the types of clouds: cirrus, cumulus and stratus. The word cirrus comes from the Latin word “cirro ...

These towering cumulus clouds form when warm ... While some, such as stratus, cirrus and cumulonimbus clouds, have always been challenging to model, their evolution as the Earth warms further ...

With Michigan's changeable weather, residents get to see a lot of different cloud formations — fluffy cumulus, wispy cirrus and dark ... might be developing. Stratus: A gray cloud layer with ...