If the conditions are right, these storms could produce severe weather. Comparatively, stratus clouds are known for their flat appearance. When you see stratus clouds, expect light rain.

Updated: May 30, 2025 / 11:44 PM EDT GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Cloud formations are a key indicator of atmospheric conditions, and flat clouds with fluffy tops are especially telling.

Dear Tom, When I see clouds, they often appear to be flat on the bottom and fluffy on top. Why is that? — Paul Fleming, Warrenville Dear Paul, You are referring to cumulus clouds, the most co… ...

Mammatus clouds form over Wrigley Field during the fifth inning of a baseball game between the Chicago Cubs and the Los Angeles Dodgers Monday, June 22, 2015, in Chicago.

MACON, Ga. — Cumulus clouds are the very common puffy clouds you see on a partly cloudy day, but have you ever wondered WHY they’re puffy and not flat? To fully understand why, we need to ...

Weather I noticed when I took a trip recently and at other times in the past that the clouds on top are billow and fluffy but underneath they are flat. I really notice it more when I go to Arizona.

While 60% of the clouds had the familiar filamentary structure seen in the Milky Way, the remaining 40% had a “fluffy” shape, lacking the elongated features thought to be crucial for star ...

And there’s a new accessory cloud, the flumen, which I can only assume is a small storage unit from Ikea (it’s actually a long, flat cloud associated with severe storms).

Fluffy, gloomy, wispy or threatening, clouds put on an ever-changing pageant, right above our heads.

We are part of The Trust Project. FARGO — The big, fluffy cumulonimbus clouds of summer will be gone from our sky until spring weather returns.

Researchers have found that stars in the early universe may have formed from 'fluffy' molecular clouds. Using the ALMA telescope to observe the Small Magellanic Cloud -- whose environment is ...