In 2005, Gavin Pretor-Pinney travelled from England to Australia just to see a cloud. The cloud in question was a volutus, but locals in North Queensland call it ‘morning glory’. You can see ...

Other clouds officially added are already well known to the meteorology world, such as volutus, roll clouds, or asperitas clouds which resemble a down-under view of a rough sea-surface above.

New entries include the wave like asperitas, the roll-like volutus, and contrails, clouds formed from the vapour trail of aeroplanes. First published in 1896, the International Cloud Atlas then ...

If you did, you might catch a volutus, or roll cloud, which looks like a tube that appears to be spinning along its horizontal axis. Or perhaps you'll get really lucky, and see a dramatic-looking ...

Stand-outs included the volutus, which the organization describes as a "tube-shaped cloud mass" that streaks horizontally across the sky. There are also man-made contrai ls, vapor trails left by ...

It's at this level that asperatus will appear. The revised atlas may also include the new cloud species Volutus — Latin for "rolled." Some new "special clouds" could also make an appearance ...

The roll cloud, known as the volutus, is defined as a new species of cloud. These horizontal, cylindrical clouds form where descending cold air pushes warm, moist air upward. Under the right wind ...

A new cloud species has been added to the atlas called volutus, more commonly known as a roll cloud by meteorologists. Cloud species are subdivisions of the 10 basic cloud "genera," the WMO says.

Among the new types added to the atlas are the wavy, mesmerizing asperitas cloud, the imposing, roll-like volutus cloud, and the hole-punch cavum cloud. An imposing volutus cloud rolls over Racine ...