Satellite observations of tropical maritime convection indicate an afternoon maximum in anvil cloud fraction that cannot be explained by the diurnal cycle of deep convection peaking at night. We use ...

HOUSTON — Anvil clouds can often look like an alien spacecraft trying to land, We’ve had emails suggesting there is a UFO in the sky and immediately when I see the picture, it’s an anvil cloud. What ...

Drivers on their morning commute were treated to views of a massive, unusually-shaped cloud as the Sun rose over the Houston area Thursday morning. The aptly nicknamed anvil cloud towered over the ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - As storms moved out of eastern Iowa on Sunday evening, some unusual cloud formations developed on the clouds that were left over. Mammatus clouds are the billowy clouds ...

Frightened residents of Kazan, Russia's fifth-largest city, have taken to social media to share pictures and videos of a cloud that resembles a "nuclear mushroom", local media reported. Residents of ...

Severe weather season in Texas has arrived and San Antonio is bracing for a couple of stormy days on the horizon this week. Knowing how thunderstorms develop and identifying cloud formations can help ...