To understand how clouds get their shape, it helps to understand the basics of how they form. When air rises and cools, the ...

Have you ever gazed up at the sky and wondered why clouds look so incredibly different from one another? One moment, you spot ...

Towering, dense clouds with a flat, anvil-shaped top. Develops from cumulus clouds and can reach great heights, often associated with thunderstorms. Indicates severe weather, such as thunderstorms ...

After a few stormy days brought widespread rain and flooding to the Houston area earlier this month, storms recently have ...

A cumulus cloud that shows "significant vertical development" but has yet to form a thunderstorm is known as cumulus congestus (or towering cumulus), the NWS says. When there is sufficient ...

When the top of the cumulus clouds looks like the head of a cauliflower, it is called cumulus congestus or towering cumulus. These clouds grow upward and they can develop into giant cumulonimbus ...

The cloud at the center of the image is a cumulus congestus. These towering cumulus clouds form when warm, moist air rises rapidly, indicating atmospheric instability at high altitudes ...

A dramatic cloud tower captured from space. An astronaut on the ISS photographed the structure of this burgeoning cumulus congestus near the shore of the Persian Gulf. A dramatic cloud tower ...

The summertime pattern of hit-or-miss storms continues for your Saturday with storms developing in the afternoon and likely ...

This cloud appears to be a hybrid formation, blending some characteristics of towering cumulus clouds with laminar, wave-like features typically seen in mountain wave clouds. Parts of this cloud ...