Our rainy spring has now stretched deep into July, so it's perhaps no surprise that we're also seeing more noisy, window-rattling thunderstorms accompanied by lightning. Just ask anyone who was at the ...

Lightning is a staple of West Michigan weather, but many natives might not know how this common phenomenon is made.

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 ...

As a recap, the difference between warm and cold air helps create positive and negative charges within a cumulonimbus cloud. Positive charges reach up from the ground, and when they reach a negative ...

The video taken Monday shows pyrocumulonimbus, or storm clouds triggered by wildfires that often include lightning and rain. After the Dixie fire in Butte and Plumas counties spurred its own storm ...

When the conditions are right, the wildfire’s rapidly rising plumes of hot smoke and air cool to form a cloud, known as a ...

On two days last week, the king of clouds reigned the skies above parts of the Inland Northwest, evoking an eerie beauty and spewing impressive thunderstorms. Cumulonimbus clouds, also known as ...

The summer monsoon season sometimes passes quickly in Southern California, depriving weather watchers the joy of watching tall, majestic cumulonimbus clouds form in the sky. This year, though, the ...

SAN JOSE (NEXSTAR) – Be thankful if your morning weather forecast has never called for pyrocumulonimbus clouds. What is a pyrocumulonimbus cloud? For those of you who are rusty on your ancient Greek, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAN JOSE (NEXSTAR) – Be thankful if your ...