A cloud was a collection of moisture in the atmosphere. They were the source of rain.[source needed]
According to a diagram used by the Spy Master, ash clouds could come from volcanos. (TV: The Power of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Power of the Doctor (TV story)"])
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The Ethereals were turned into living clouds by the Baggolts. The First Doctor, finding it odd that the clouds could exist in a thin atmosphere and move despite there being no wind, tried to take a sample of one, but it captured him instead. (PROSE: The Cloud Exiles [+]Loading...["The Cloud Exiles (short story)"])
In 1974, the Zircon attempted to wipe out the Earth with a poison cloud. They were stopped by either the Third Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith or the Fourth Doctor and Joan Brown. (COMIC: Doomcloud [+]Loading...["Doomcloud (comic story)"])
One day whilst in his village's market, Moop noticed that the clouds were making strange shapes until a face appeared in them. It claimed to be the creator of Moop's people and asked for a tribute. Moop gave the "god" some of his Grunt. (PROSE: The Tomorrow Windows [+]Loading...["The Tomorrow Windows (novel)"])
After losing his companions and parents-in-law, Rory Williams and Amy Pond, the Eleventh Doctor parked his TARDIS in or before 1892, atop a cloud, high above London. A staircase provided the Doctor a means of inconspicuous entry access to and egress from the surface, while assuring him solitude. (TV: The Snowmen [+]Loading...["The Snowmen (TV story)"])
In the early 21st century, flying Cybermen led by Missy took to the skies and created clouds of cyber-pollen above Earth's graveyards. These clouds then rained upon the graves, recruiting the dead into a new Cyberman army. When control of the Cyberman army went to the hands of the recently-converted Danny Pink, he ordered all Cybermen to return to the clouds and self-destruct, destroying themselves and the clouds. (TV: Death in Heaven [+]Loading...["Death in Heaven (TV story)"])
After "the company" had constructed a second sun, Kromon's clouds dispersed. (AUDIO: The Creed of the Kromon [+]Loading...["The Creed of the Kromon (audio story)"])
On one planet, what appeared to be an unusual cloud turned out to be an echo across time. (PROSE: Follow the Phantoms [+]Loading...["Follow the Phantoms (short story)"])
The Entity, in its domain, was a "formless black cloud that flowed and coalesced" which throbbed with a "terrible passion"; it personified pure evil. (PROSE: Games [+]Loading...{"page":"22","1":"Games (short story)"})
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There was a single cloud over the Squirrel Club Clubhouse when it was visited by the Fifteenth Doctor and Belinda Chandra. (TV: The Doctor's TARDIS lands in iconic BBC shows [+]Loading...["The Doctor's TARDIS lands in iconic BBC shows (TV story)"])