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 ...

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 ...

A severe thunderstorm struck New York City on Thursday, June 19, bringing strong winds that uprooted trees and toppled power poles. The storm also caused flooding in streets and led to power outages ...

Lightning is one of the first signs of a monsoon storm. It's incredibly hot. In fact, it's five times hotter than the surface of the sun, at an astounding 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Lightning is ...

A lot of things go on in our afternoon sky, on the Gulf Coast. It’s the water cycle in action as the sun heats the earth and a south wind and seabreeze carry moisture inland. Cumulus clouds grow fast ...

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, ...

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 hot and sunny weather of the long Easter weekend would have seemed like a distant memory for many of us on Thursday. Thunderstorms broke out across the UK with fork lightning, hail, gusty winds ...