While the United States experiences tens of thousands of thunderstorms each year, they come in different types. Here's what ...

Pileus clouds are the delicate caps that adorn the tops of cumulus or cumulonimbus clouds ... appearance that can form a halo around the sun or moon. Located at high altitudes, typically above ...

Wispy cirrus are ice clouds When cumulonimbus clouds grow high enough into the atmosphere ... In some cases, you can see the Sun or Moon through them. Cirrus clouds that forms atop a thunderstorm ...

Unusual mammatus clouds were spotted on Wednesday morning in parts of the United Kingdom. The name mammatus comes from the Latin mamma which means 'udder' or 'breast'. The bulging cloud was made to ...

🎥 When a storm develops, the clouds we see are cumulonimbus clouds towering high ... and thick enough to block out the sun. These also form along mid-latitude cyclones and other frontal systems ...

Mammatus is most often found at the base of a thunderstorm cloud called cumulonimbus ... the best examples of mammatus can be seen when the sun is low in the sky, casting light on the underside ...