Weather officials say different types of clouds can tell you what kind of weather to expect. Here's a look at the different types.

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.

When the anvil of a cumulonimbus cloud starts to spread ... Shelf clouds originate from the bottom of a storm cloud. Storms have updrafts and downdrafts. With an updraft, warm air is pulled ...

In mature thunderstorms and large storm complexes, you may notice thunder that sounds louder, lasts longer and rattles buildings for miles around. It’s likely that thunder is a result of a positively ...

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 ...

Below the anvil, Lebel explains that you may see rounded pouches that are called mammatus clouds, which are caused ... shows the definition of an isolated storm. “Strong thunderstorms like ...

Warm air surging upward in the storm encounters a warmer environment and decelerates causing the cloud to spread outward into an anvil-shaped top.

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.