Picture the ocean on a stormy day—but in the sky. These rare Asperitas clouds, with their dramatic wave-like formations, have ...

A 2023 astronaut photo captured a rare effect, known as sunglint, transforming the surface of one of Russia's deepest lakes ...

Considering the globe as a whole, high clouds and cloud-free scenes result in warming of the Earth's atmosphere, as less energy escapes into space than arrives from the sun. For low clouds ...

The data reveals the density of ice, snow, and rain in the cloud, as well as the speed with which these particles are falling to Earth ... around the whole globe, not just at a handful of ground ...

For more on the satellites that keep their eyes on Earth, visit NOAA’s Satellite and Information Service. This section contains a cloud gallery with 260 beautiful images of a range of 10 cloud ...

Recent examples of more extreme rainfall have become evident in more flooding scattered over the globe in the last years ... this discrepancy and found that clouds were the culprit.

What attracted Globe editors to this image is the dominant sky, where a forceful movement toward the centre of the picture is created by two converging diagonals, representing banks of clouds.