Towering, dense clouds with a flat, anvil-shaped top ... Often forms along the leading edge of a storm front or gust front. Indicates a change in wind direction and can precede severe weather.

Before, during and after strong thunderstorms, you often get a variety of interesting cloud types. Last week was no exception ...

At the top of the storm, the air diverges, which is why you get that anvil shape in some of the ... These repetitive pouches are your mammatus clouds. Check out a couple pictures that were sent ...

"Observations consistently show taller and bigger anvil-shaped clouds in storm systems with pollution, but the models don't always show stronger convection. Now we know why." Also, pollution can ...

typically beneath the anvil clouds. They often form in groups that can extend hundreds of miles in any direction, and while they are not necessarily an indication of a severe storm, they do ...

These flat clouds earned their nickname because they make the entire storm look like a blacksmith’s anvil. Anvils commonly fill the skies on a stormy day, sometimes stretching for dozens of ...

Prior to severe thunderstorms in Cumberland and Sampson counties Sunday evening, some of you saw a unique cloud formation. Mammatus clouds will sometimes form within the anvil of a thunderstorm.