While Mt. Rainier has been getting all the attention lately for lenticular clouds, it turns out our tallest mountain does not have a monopoly. Dr. Dale Ireland over in Silverdale captured this great ...

The sometimes-eerie-looking "Hat" clouds -- officially known as lenticular clouds -- are no stranger to Mt. Rainier. But while to many it might just look like a cloud frozen in time, there is actually ...

MT. HOOD MEADOWS, Ore. (KOIN) — Oregon’s latest cold front and strong winds helped simultaneously form a cap cloud and lenticular cloud over the peak of Mt. Hood on Tuesday. A time-lapse view of these ...

A massive cloud shaped like a flying saucer covered the top of California's Mount Shasta on Jan. 22, attracting the attention of many, especially shutterbugs who posted images that wowed the social ...

The bizarrely shaped lenticular clouds that form around mountain peaks can easily be mistaken for UFOs, but their underside can be equally “surreal,” judging from video shared by researchers. It was ...

SEATTLE — Even a clear sky contains layers of wet and dry air, that is, layers with different humidities. You can’t see these layers unless the humidity is high enough for the moisture in the layer to ...

Mountain chains and the turbulent airflow around them help create some magical and otherworldly scenes. On Thursday, during a beautiful and otherwise sunny jaunt, hikers in Argentina’s Andes caught a ...

As a round, orange-tinted cloud hovered Thursday over Bursa, Turkey, it might have looked like a flying saucer was about to land. But it was just a lenticular cloud — not uncommon in the vicinity of ...

Mount Washington Observatory in New Hampshire reported seeing cap clouds and lenticular clouds when winds reached 55 mph. It recorded video of a cloud passing close to the ground. Facebook screengrab ...