How do harmless puffy white clouds grow into towering, potentially dangerous cumulonimbus thunderstorms? On their surface, clouds appear to be an odd contradiction of nature — light enough to float on ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - Last week was Severe Weather Awareness week, which covered topics from severe thunderstorms to tornadoes to extreme heat and fire danger. One question that may remain is: How ...

As I’ve mentioned in previous articles, there are over 40,000 thunderstorms forming every day across the globe. That’s nearly 1,700 per hour. For an entire year, it’s estimated that our planet will ...

When those thunderstorms formed that spawned the deadly tornadoes across the south earlier thsi week formed, some of them reached incredible heights over 50,000 feet tall -- thats' nearly 10 miles ...

Thunderstorms are known to form preferentially on warm, humid days with unstable air. But predicting where exactly a thunderstorm will develop has so far remained extremely difficult. Heavy rainfall ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Strong thunderstorms have formed over the Cascades on Saturday afternoon. For a brief time, one of the storms triggered a Severe Thunderstorm Warning, issued by the National ...