TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – A thin layer of clouds spreads across the Tampa Bay area through the day today creating filtered sunshine. It will still be warm and breezy with highs in the mid 80s.

Image credit: Jeff Slater, Flickr // CC BY-NC 2.0 One of the most impressive sights that fills the sky near a thunderstorm is a thin, flat cloud that covers an area miles around like an umbrella.

Puffy cumulus and drab stratus are mainstays in the scenery of our everyday life, but there are some extraordinary clouds ...

Where skies like these could happen Monday: Areas from the Southern Plains to the mid-Atlantic and much of the north-central US High level clouds are thin and wispy and can cover much of the sky ...

that it blocks light from the setting sun and casts a shadow across the sky." Cappucci also said the dark band seen in the clip is formed "because there are very thin clouds in the upper ...