Our rainy spring has now stretched deep into July, so it's perhaps no surprise that we're also seeing more noisy, window-rattling thunderstorms accompanied by lightning. Just ask anyone who was at the ...

Even on quiet nights out for dinner with my wife, weather geekdom can find its way to the surface. Friday was one of those evenings. The Italian restaurant was packed so I dropped my wife off to get ...

As a recap, the difference between warm and cold air helps create positive and negative charges within a cumulonimbus cloud. Positive charges reach up from the ground, and when they reach a negative ...

The launch of BBC Weather Watchers ten years ago brought together a whole new army of cloud enthusiasts with the main aim of ...

The video taken Monday shows pyrocumulonimbus, or storm clouds triggered by wildfires that often include lightning and rain. After the Dixie fire in Butte and Plumas counties spurred its own storm ...

You’re fishing in the middle of a lake..A fish bites and you start reeling it in but… suddenly there’s a metallic taste in your mouth. You can feel your arm hair standing on end. Where did those big ...

Skygazers near Amarillo, Texas, were treated to the breathtaking sight of a cumulonimbus "mushroom" cloud associated with a thunderstorm southeast of the city Tuesday evening. A cumulonimbus cloud is ...

On two days last week, the king of clouds reigned the skies above parts of the Inland Northwest, evoking an eerie beauty and spewing impressive thunderstorms. Cumulonimbus clouds, also known as ...

Weather forecasting can often seem as arcane as gazing into a crystal ball, but the skill lies in analyzing current conditions, identifying weather patterns and applying climatology to produce a ...

SAN JOSE (NEXSTAR) – Be thankful if your morning weather forecast has never called for pyrocumulonimbus clouds. What is a pyrocumulonimbus cloud? For those of you who are rusty on your ancient Greek, ...