Ball Lightning Imagine seeing a glowing sphere floating through the sky during a thunderstorm. That's ball lightning, a ...

A powerful winter storm can also produce the dynamics needed ... mountainous terrain can provide the oomph necessary for cumulonimbus clouds robust enough to generate lightning.

Technically called “cumulonimbus flammagenitus,” pyrocumulonimbus clouds are a rare weather ... This produces thunder, rain, and occasionally even tornadoes. Lightning strikes from the storm ...

where formation of cumulonimbus, also known as thundery clouds, is very common," explains Gahigi. Those clouds are responsible for the build-up of opposite charges during a storm, which poses a ...

An exerpt from Jean-Luc Van Den Heede's (12 time Cape Horn legend) recent book, where he reflects on being afraid at ...

Cumulus clouds often form as a result of convection. The most exceptional forms are often associated with severe thunderstorms and occasionally, tornadoes. Cumulonimbus, for instance, may reach ...

Fujitsu Limited and Yokohama National University have achieved the world’s first real-time prediction of multiple typhoon-associated tornadoes using advanced supercomputing technology.

The year’s first deadly US tornado struck after dark Thursday, killing two people in a small East Tennessee community as the first of five back-to-back, jet stream-driven winter storms pummeled ...

Tornadoes are a violently rotating column of air that comes from the base of a severe thunderstorm. The base cloud where the tornado starts to come down is called a wall cloud. If that rotating ...

The southern-most counties of Kentucky are under a tornado watch on Feb. 6, 2025 due to intense storms. The National Weather Service The National Weather Service has confirmed at least one tornado ...

GAINESBORO, Tenn. (WTVF) — The National Weather Service confirmed an EF1 tornado touched down in Jackson County on Thursday night. Surveyors from the Nashville office gained preliminary ...