Staring at the clouds during a tornado warning is a nerve-racking experience. Thunderstorms fill our skies with a tremendous variety of colours and textures as they lumber across the horizon. The ...

Coming off of April Fool's Day and coming into the month that traditionally has the most "severe" weather (at least by paltry Pacific Northwest standards) I wanted to highlight a trick of atmospheric ...

Danielle Kinnamont filmed a white tornado-shaped cloud moving slowly through a field in Thurmont, Maryland, on May 5. During the video, her young daughter asks, "Is it maybe fog?" Essentially, you're ...

ATLANTA — Many people reached out to Channel 2 Action News after seeing what they thought were funnel clouds during storms on Tuesday. But it’s not what they think. Severe Weather Team 2 Meteorologist ...

PENNSYLVANIA, USA — Is that a scud cloud or a funnel cloud I'm seeing? Stormtracker 16's Joe Snedeker explains the difference. Have you ever felt chilly when coming out of the shower or bath? We all ...

Scud clouds are a type of cloud formation that are "low, ragged cloud fragments that can sometimes be located near the updraft region of the storm," according to a storm spotting guide from the ...

BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - This week has brought us a large amount of rainfall, and has oftentimes boasted some pretty stubborn cloud cover. While most of these clouds have looked like your typical, gray ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — We are entering into storm season here in West Michigan which means a lot of fantastic looking thunderstorms are likely to sweep our area. Inevitably, some have some very ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The cold front that worked through Corpus Christi around 2pm, Monday created some picturesque clouds (pictures below). We received many photos of these finger-like clouds to ...

FARGO — Sometimes you may notice little, somewhat disorganized, gray clouds underneath the main cloud of a thunderstorm. The technical name for these clouds is stratus fractus, but most meteorologists ...

Before you panic at that low-hanging cloud, take a closer look, it might just be a harmless scud cloud. Scud clouds are small, ragged-looking clouds that form just beneath a larger cloud base, often ...

While Wednesday's storm rolled in, Iowans pointed their fingers at what looked like tornadoes trying to touch down. But they weren't funnel clouds. Instead, scud clouds are to blame for reports of ...