A lenticular cloud is a lens-shaped cloud that normally develops on the downwind side of a mountain or mountain range. This occurs when stable, moist air flows over a mountain, creating a series ...

Or rather, their doppelgangers. Check out these stunning photos several Keckies took of flying saucer-shaped lenticular clouds hovering near Maunakea and Mauna Loa. Did you see them too?

evoking images from a 1950s science-fiction novel or fantasy epic. It wasn’t a spaceship descending over Palm Desert; it was a gigantic lenticular cloud that just happened to take perfect form ...

When wind blows against mountains, moist air rises, and as it cools, the vapour condenses to form clouds. What Lisa caught ...