But what is even more intriguing is that their appearance can give insight into what the weather will be like in the near ...

During the storm, there was a significant drop in pressure, which allowed the clouds to grow and stretch in unusual ways. Low pressure often leads to the development of towering cumulonimbus ...

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 to ...

Thunderstorms, known as cumulonimbus clouds (which means “heaping rain cloud” in Latin), are towering cloud formations that develop when the atmosphere has sufficient instability, moisture ...

Conditions with thunderstorms are constantly changing, which causes the hailstone to go through periods of wet and dry growth ...

See downburst. Thunderstorm - A local storm produced by a cumulonimbus cloud, and accompanied by thunder and lightning, strong wind gusts, heavy rain and sometimes hail. A cumulonimbus cloud is a ...

A thunderstorm watch is issued when conditions ... Convective Clouds: The vertically developed family of clouds are cumulus and cumulonimbus. Clouds with extensive vertical development are ...

Can you guess which of New Jersey's 564 municipalities experienced the highest density of lightning events last year?

When cumulonimbus clouds grow high enough into the atmosphere ... look like paintbrush strokes Cirrus clouds that forms atop a thunderstorm spread outward and can form anvil clouds.

According to the IMD, the formation of cumulonimbus clouds — towering clouds with a flat base at a low attitude — caused ...