Weather forecasting can often seem as arcane as gazing into a crystal ball, but the skill lies in analyzing current conditions, identifying weather patterns and applying climatology to produce a ...

MADISON, Wis. - Both are ominous looking clouds that are sometimes present with thunderstorms and are often confused for each other. Let's take a look at a shelf cloud, a wall cloud and discuss how ...

Lightning flashes in the eyewall of Category 5 Melissa are a marker of how strong the storm is. It reached a central pressure ...

The Dragon Bravo Fire has grown to over 111,000 acres, becoming the largest wildfire in the continental US in 2025. The fire is generating pyrocumulus clouds, which can create dangerous fire behavior ...

Senior writer Chris DeWeese edits Morning Brief, The Weather Channel’s newsletter.

Dramatic thunderstorms, curious cloud formations, atmospheric fog and spinning dust devils are some of the diverse weather featured in the Bureau of ...

Mammatus clouds are some of the most visually striking and unusual cloud formations in the sky. They appear as rounded, pouchlike lobes that hang down from the base of a cloud, usually under ...

Got your head in the clouds? Well, that's exactly where I want you. Clouds are fascinating to watch as they float through the sky. But what is even more intriguing is that their appearance can give ...

Images shared across social media showed a huge horizontal wall stretching from the horizon towards the shore, accompanied by a violent gust of wind when it reached land. 'Felt like a tsunami out of a ...