I love this time of year when we begin having big cloud formations across the sky to enjoy, ponder, forecast from, and maybe even run from. This is ...

On September 22, 2025, in Bandung, Indonesia, @rlazuwardi shared a video of a striking weather phenomenon. In the video, residents see lightning-filled clouds with a broad, mushroom-shaped top and ...

A severe thunderstorm struck New York City on Thursday, June 19, bringing strong winds that uprooted trees and toppled power poles. The storm also caused flooding in streets and led to power outages ...

Opening weekend of the State Fair of Texas is expected to be temperate and sunny, but it may not stay that way over its entire 24-day run. The Dallas Morning News spoke with Fair officials about what ...

Noel Kirkpatrick is an editor and writer based in Tacoma, Washington. He covers many topics, including animals, science, and the environment. We stare at clouds all the time, whether trying to figure ...

A cloud resembling a tornado was spotted north of Las Vegas on Friday night, September 5, as a lightning storm rolled through the area, though there is no confirmation that a tornado was forming in ...

On a stormy pre-dawn morning in late 2017, a lightning bolt near Dallas unzipped the sky, racing northeast through the clouds of a massive storm system to set a record for the longest distance ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

When the sun is low, and the sky is soaked with haze and blanketed with clouds, look for slabs of light coming in through the cracks. Meteorologists call these “crepuscular rays”—or, more colloquially ...