Lenticular Clouds Lenticular clouds, with their distinctive lens shape, often hover over mountain ranges like alien ...

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

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.

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 ...

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

The Bureau of Meteorology believes a destructive storm that lashed the town of Kaimkillenbun in Southern Queensland formed a funnel cloud, not a tornado. Experts say the difference is tornadoes ...

KAWASAKI, Japan, Feb. 12, 2025 /CNW/ -- Fujitsu Limited and Yokohama National University today announced the achievement of the world's first real-time prediction of multiple typhoon-associated ...

While a winter storm and ice storm are both wintertime hazards, the impacts can be very different. A winter storm is when heavy snow is expected. The National Weather Service (NWS) may issue a ...

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 ...