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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Lightning is a staple of West Michigan weather, but many natives might not know how this common phenomenon is made. Lightning is caused in cumulus clouds when ice ...

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 ...

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 ...

Believe it or not, scientists are still not 100% sure what creates lightning. The most logical explanation as of now has it all starting with ice crystals and turbulence! As clouds grow high in the ...

Unusual weather conditions caused Northern California’s Dixie Fire to generate its own overhead thunderstorm Monday, with wild winds and “extreme, extreme” conditions accelerating its rate of spread, ...

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 ...

A powerful storm in southeast Queensland brought in fist-size hail, heavy rain, and 133,000 lightning strikes in just 2 hours. The lightning was triggered by a large thunderstorm over Kimberly and was ...