Firefighters battling devastating fires in France have had to contend with a new threat: immense fire clouds that create ...

Pyrocumulonimbus Cloud Formation: Fierce wildfires in southwest France generated towering storm clouds, a phenomenon called ...

You may have spotted it over the mountains near Vancouver, B.C. or the Bellingham area - a strange looking cloud with a flat top that resembles a giant anvil. The technical name for this type of cloud ...

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 ...

This afternoon SpaceX aborted its second attempt to land a rocket on a ship at sea. This would have been – and still might be – a historic landing, if completed successfully, as it would make the ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Mother Nature put on a display of convection (rising air) over the mountains, lifting moisture rapidly toward an invisible ceiling in the atmosphere. The event began with a ...

First on Monday night, and then again on Tuesday. They were in the decaying or dying phase when they really got interesting. And everybody in the metro had a front-row seat. 9NEWS received photos from ...

I have seen cumulonimbus clouds (thunderheads) with classic anvil formations at the top. What air mass is above the anvil causing it to flatten? Scott, Bloomingdale, Ill. Dear Scott, The troposphere, ...