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Weather How does hoar frost form? 30 November 2016 There are several different types of frost that form when the temperature drops below freezing, but what are the differences?
Weather New cloud type spotted over Snowdonia 14 November 2016 These rare, rippling clouds resemble ocean waves in the sky, but what are they called and how do they form?
Weather What causes these beautiful frost patterns? 10 November 2016 Scraping the frost from your car windscreen was a pleasant surprise on this occasion, but how do these patterns form?
Weather Rare sighting of sinusoidal thin contrails 07 April 2016 The Royal Meteorological Soceity received these photographs this week, sent in from Tofino, on the west of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, asking for an explanation of how they are formed.
Weather Nacreous clouds 03 February 2016 Several rare sightings of nacreous clouds have been reported over the last few days, delighting cloudspotters, with photographs of the clouds coming from England and Scotland.
Weather Precipitation Production Pathways 19 February 2015 Although not always a ‘welcome friend,’ precipitation is essential to the life on Earth and the latent heat released from its formation provides much of the energy that drives atmospheric circulation.
Weather What are noctilucent clouds? 28 April 2014 Noctilucent clouds are very fine, wispy formations made out of ice crystals that occur high up in the mesosphere (50-53 miles) and are the highest clouds in the Earth’s atmosphere.