At these heights, the atmosphere is cold enough that clouds are typically composed of ice crystals, not water droplets. These clouds often look thin, wispy, and delicate—but they can provide valuable ...

In Spring Hill, Tennessee, residents captured timelapse footage of a large storm cloud developing. This is what meteorologists call a cumulonimbus cloud - one of the most destructive - that leads ...

This edition of Weather Tidbits is going to be discussing pyrocumulonimbus clouds. Pyrocumulonimbus clouds are thunderclouds that are created from intense heating of the Earth’s surface. The process ...

A supercell is a thunderstorm that is characterized by the presence of a mesocyclone: a deep, persistently ... produced from cumulonimbus or thunderstorm clouds. A bigger hail stone signifies ...