Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Just because something floats doesn’t mean it is weightless. A great example is when oil is poured ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Spotting a cumulus cloud is pretty easy. The clouds resemble pieces of cotton candy, but why are cumulus clouds fluffy and not flat? To fully understand why, we need to start with the ...

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Cumulus clouds are white, puffy clouds that look like pieces of floating cotton and are often called "fair-weather clouds". The base of each cloud it flat and the top has rounded towers. When the top ...

Just because you see SLCs - scary-looking clouds - doesn't mean inclement weather is necessarily inbound. Here's the science behind them.

Seeing "hat clouds" -- or lenticular clouds atop Mt. Rainier or other local mountains is a fairly frequent occurrence around here. But have you ever seen those hat clouds form atop...another cloud?

Meteorologist Ray Petelin joined the KDKA Weather Team in October 2018, but is no stranger to the weather in Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania. He has been forecasting in Pittsburgh since 2011 and ...

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Cumulus clouds, those puffy clouds common in the sky during warm days, especially in the summer, are indeed flat-bottomed. It’s because of the way they form. They exist at the top of columns of warm ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Just because something floats doesn’t mean it is weightless. A great example is when oil is poured onto water. The oil will float on top of the water, but that doesn’t ...