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 ...

A storm cloud described by some as a “nuke” cloud drew the attention of hundreds of San Antonians Saturday evening as it poured heavy rain over Atascosa county. Matthew Brady, a meteorologist with the ...

We stare at clouds all the time, whether trying to figure out what they look like or if they're bringing rain. Yet most of us know very little about clouds, let alone how to identify them. The World ...

"It's a beautiful cloud but not unusual," she said. "It's a nearly textbook cumulonimbus, or thunderstorm cloud." According to Gardner, "A front helped create a line of storms across the central part ...

Cumulonimbus clouds are also known as thunderstorm clouds. High winds, usually from the jet stream, can flatten the top of the cloud into an anvil-like shape. The anvil usually points in the direction ...

Cumulonimbus clouds (the clouds that produce thunderstorms) build upward into the atmosphere 30 to 65 thousand feet, sometimes higher. The primary force that drives those clouds to such a great height ...

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WRAL viewers submitted photos of beautiful clouds they saw in the sky before Wednesday night's storms. WRAL meteorologist Elizabeth Gardner said they're actually quite common. Other WRAL Top Stories ...