And what a beautiful sky it is! Rob Carlmark captured this image of altocumulus clouds filling the sky over Sacramento on Tuesday. While beautiful at the time, these clouds often foretell rainy ...

According to WRAL meteorologist Aimee Wilmoth, these clouds that resemble jellyfish are patchy altocumulus clouds with virga (rain that evaporates before it reaches the ground) at the bottom of ...

The photograph that you provided shows a hole in a deck of altocumulus clouds (mid-level clouds occurring at a height of about 7,000 to 15,000 feet). I estimate the height of this particular ...

or hole punch cloud. It’s a large circular or elliptical gap that appears in cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds. Mid and high-level clouds like these are often composed of tiny water droplets ...

The unique cloud formation occurs when airplanes pass through mid-level altocumulus clouds containing supercooled water droplets. The disturbance caused by the aircraft's wings or propellers leads ...