New research suggests that clouds affected by wildfire smoke hold more water droplets but are tiny and less likely drop as rain. Associated Press As heatwaves and wildfires continue to spread ...

When smoke rises from wildfires in the western United States, it pummels clouds with tiny airborne particles. What happens next with these clouds has been largely unstudied. But during the 2018 ...

The distance of the cloud base from the ground is also a factor: In some regions, he explained, cloud bases can sit over 10,000 feet above the ground (on the East Coast, they're usually half as high).

The rainmakers of the 21st century may be armed with powerful lasers. New research suggests that zapping clouds with laser beams could trigger the formation of condensation droplets that would fall to ...

Clouds of water droplets and even rain may exist in the soggy skies of a faraway exoplanet. A combination of observations with space telescopes and simulations suggests that planet K2 18b has ...

The rain- and snow-bursts are not caused by emissions from the aircraft but are the peculiar consequence of the aircrafts' wings passing though clouds of supercooled water droplets in cloud layers ...

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

One study released in early 2016 found that spore seasons for some fungi grow longer in warm, dry weather; that might mean fungi have evolved a spore-powered response to make it (literally) rain.