If your knowledge of clouds only extends to 'dull and grey' or 'white and fluffy', then prepare to be amazed by this cloud atlas. Nature also produces clouds in all shapes, sizes and colours.

Puffy, wispy, white and gray, we’ve seen them all this spring. Clouds come in a variety of types, and each type comes with ...

and temperatures that are typical of the tops of thick clouds almost white. In this case, the medium or dark gray clouds are usually low to mid level clouds, while the brightest whites are usually ...

Kenn from Mount Gilead wrote in to ask, “I’ve always wondered, why are some clouds white, some gray, and others dark gray to even black? What causes the different colors of the clouds?” ...

The sky is blue. So why are clouds white? And if regular clouds are white, why are rain clouds gray? On sunny days, at picnics, we relax on the sweet-smelling grass, look up at the clouds and idly ...

Cirrocumulus clouds are also white and can be sheet-like and rippled. Mid-level clouds are usually gray and are identified as either altocumulus, altostratus, or nimbostratus. Altocumulus clouds ...

It's pretty well-known that most clouds are white, while rain clouds are usually a darker shade of gray. But why are rain clouds so dark? Let's start by discussing how clouds form. The air around ...

I also recall pining for a grey day in Australia after weeks of blue skies. As well as their environmental importance, clouds have great aesthetic value, turning the sky into an art gallery.

When the Sun shines over clouds, water droplets in the latter act like prisms, splitting white sunlight into its component colours. They send these rays of light of different colours (frequencies ...

Have you ever wondered why rain and storm clouds appear gray rather than the usual white? It has a lot to do with how our eyes perceive sunlight as it interacts with particles in the atmosphere.

Clouds are made of tiny water droplets. So why are they white and opaque? Clouds look white (or grey) because of the way light bounces around inside the water droplets. If light travelled straight ...