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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.
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A Morning Glory cloud is a roll cloud, or arcus cloud, that can be up to 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) long, [2] 1 to 2 kilometres (0.62 to 1.24 mi) high, often only 100 to 200 metres (330 to 660 ft) above the ground. The cloud often travels at the rate of 10 to 20 metres per second. [3]
Clouds often captivate onlookers as they take on curious, billowing, or ominous shapes. One cloud that has been specifically named after an object is the horseshoe cloud, one of the rarest ...
A lenticular cloud covers the summit crater of Mayon Volcano, Philippines.. As air travels along the surface of the Earth, obstructions are often encountered, including natural features, such as mountains or hills, and artificial structures, such as buildings and other constructions, which disrupt the flow of air into "eddies", or areas of turbulence.
Asperitas (formerly known as Undulatus asperatus) is a cloud formation first popularized and proposed as a type of cloud in 2009 by Gavin Pretor-Pinney of the Cloud Appreciation Society. Added to the International Cloud Atlas as a supplementary feature in March 2017, it is the first cloud formation added since cirrus intortus in 1951. [ 2 ]
The clouds, which are quite rare in the UK, were spotted in northern parts of the country earlier this week ... USA TODAY Sports. 2025 NFL mock draft: Could Abdul Carter threaten for top spot with ...
The Kordylewski clouds are located near the L 4 and L 5 Lagrange points of the Earth–Moon system. They are about 6 degrees in angular diameter. [7] The clouds can drift up to 6 to 10 degrees from those points. [11] Other observations suggest they move around the Lagrange points in ellipses of about 6 by 2 degrees. [7]