Cloud-watchers can talk all about the interesting shapes they've noticed over the years. They may have been gazing out the car window during a road trip, or tanning on the beach, or on a morning walk.

Gravity wave clouds form in wave-like patterns in sky, oftentimes resembling ripples in a body of water from a rock being thrown. These types of clouds are created from air in the atmosphere coming ...

A rare formation called asperitas clouds appeared over the Santa Barbara Channel in Southern California on Nov. 15. NPS Emily Zivot Channel Islands National Park A rare, wave-like cloud formation ...

A woman in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, saw a strange, wavy cloud in the sky on Feb. 22, 2025, and took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to crowdsource an answer. "Does anyone know what is happening here ...

Global shipping rules that quietly cleaned up one of the world’s dirtiest fuels are now reshaping the clouds that hang over ...

Where is it? The Crozet Islands in the Southern Ocean. [-46.41255591, 51.99872352]. What's in the photo? A pair of wave clouds formed by island mountains. Who took the photo? An unnamed astronaut on ...

Magnificent clouds resembling ocean waves in the sky towered over mountain ridge tops over Interstate 70 in Maryland on a clear Sunday morning. Capital Weather Gang reader Kristy Pottol said she ...

On June 1, 2015 the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this true-color image as it passed over the Kuril Islands. The cloud bank has been ...

A rare, wave-like cloud formation blanketing the sky off the coast of Southern California left some people mesmerized — and wondering what it was. They were asperitas clouds, the Channel Islands ...

This 2023 astronaut photo shows a pair of perfectly aligned "wave clouds" rippling above the Crozet Islands in the Southern Ocean. The unusual patterns are the result of changes in temperature caused ...