Do you know the difference between a wall cloud and a shelf cloud?? This is often a misunderstood phenomenon in weather, although to be fair... the shelf cloud does look like a wall. A shelf cloud is ...

More severe weather is expected to hit North Carolina and the Piedmont Triad over the third weekend in July. There is plenty of humid July air to fuel storms. Our afternoon storm chances have been ...

We have another question to answer! Jim asks: "Hey, Ray, I recently heard about shelf clouds. They are an eerie sight indeed! Can you give a brief synopsis of how these fronts form?" Shelf clouds do ...

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 ...

With Michigan's changeable weather, residents get to see a lot of different cloud formations — fluffy cumulus, wispy cirrus and dark, threatening cumulonimbus — and recognizing what weather each type ...

Severe weather season in Texas has arrived and San Antonio is bracing for a couple of stormy days on the horizon this week. Knowing how thunderstorms develop and identifying cloud formations can help ...

A supercell is a unique type of thunderstorm characterized by a rotating updraft known as a mesocyclone. The term "mesocyclone" refers to the small-scale circulation occurring in a storm. This is what ...

Update 8:02 p.m., Tuesday: A severe thunderstorm watch is in effect until midnight. The watch, issued by the National Weather Service that covers Greater Houston and Galveston, includes Harris, ...

For about an hour, the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport had a ground stop preventing any planes from leaving or landing as a cloud ... thunderstorm collapsed, and its winds blasted outward, ...

MADISON, Wis. -- Southern Wisconsin experienced two types of severe weather Friday evening. Impacts to power were minimal however, a dramatic supercell caught the eyes of many. The first type of ...