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 ...

People may be frustrated by the lack of detail when weather forecasters say, "There will be thunderstorms popping up, but we don't know where." Now a key finding in a study by the UK Centre for ...

Tornadoes are among the most powerful and unpredictable storms on Earth. They usually form from large thunderstorms when the ...

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 ...

Some squall lines can produce tornadoes, too. They’re often wrapped in rain and move erratically.

They're much more common than tornadoes. Here's why severe thunderstorms are dangerous and why you should take action when a ...

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 ...

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 ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Good Wednesday, bloggers, We are in another period today through Friday where we will see several chances of rain and thunderstorms. It is looking like this period of active weather ...