Capital Weather Gang Bubble-wrap sky: Storm chasers photograph mesmerizing mammatus clouds The Sunday night sky in Oklahoma brought spectacular views of the pouch-shaped clouds May 17, 2022 5 min ...

An amazing photo of a thunderstorm anvil cloud was snapped by scientists during a mission to study the thunderstorm environment and how it affects the chemistry of the atmosphere.

Towering, dense clouds with a flat, anvil-shaped top. Develops from cumulus clouds and can reach great heights, often associated with thunderstorms.

Anvil cloud: The popular name applied to the upper, flattened ice-crystal portion of a cumulonimbus (thunderhead) cloud formed when the storm’s updraft encounters a layer of stable air and ...

The May 18 flight flew over areas of northeast Colorado and southwest Nebraska, flying four steps of a ladder pattern in the cirrus clouds of a storm anvil, in addition to the L-shaped pattern legs.

Astronaut Alexander Gerst captured a picturesque view of of a massive, Saharan dust storm from a window on the International Space Station.

This anvil shape is a key feature in distinguishing a thunderstorm in the field, but it is often not visible when there are not clear skies neighboring the storm.

The cloud is shaped like an anvil because it’s hitting the bottom of the stratosphere, KXAN’s Natalie Ferrari explains. The air at the top of the storm is much cooler than the stratosphere, so ...

The thunderstorms rolling through Lower Michigan this morning had some interesting cloud features. A few comments mentioned ‘scary clouds." Here are my thoughts about how to tell severe storm ...

After weeks of highly technical debate about whether the space shuttle is safe, the decision not to launch on Saturday came down to the mundane and obvious: storm clouds.

Towering, dense clouds with a flat, anvil-shaped top. Develops from cumulus clouds and can reach great heights, often associated with thunderstorms.