Most digital artists and video-game designers probably can’t explain the difference between cirrostratus and altocumulus clouds. But the increasingly detailed worlds such designers create require ...

Painting clouds in digital art presents some particular challenges, and most artists will come up against them at some point. For landscape, environment and concept art, the sky will often be a major ...

We've seen lava bombs, ash clouds and rivers of lava and recently we've seen a new kind of volcanic phenomenon called pyrocumulonimbus "That is just a thunderstorm cloud that is enhanced or just a ...

Substantial fires can make their own weather – and do it in several ways. The most common weather phenomena wildfires can create include pyrocumulus clouds, fire tornadoes and smoke clouds that cause ...

Heat from the recent wildfires raging in northern Minnesota is so intense, that under the right circumstances, they can actually create storms in the atmosphere. It's not uncommon to see cumulus ...

When Did Cloud Seeding Start? This method started in 1946 by scientists at the General Electric Research Laboratory. They discovered that they could use silver iodide -- an inorganic compound -- and ...