How do harmless puffy white clouds grow into towering, potentially dangerous cumulonimbus thunderstorms? On their surface, clouds appear to be an odd contradiction of nature — light enough to float on ...

The rumble of thunderstorms across the country this week is a noisy reminder that summer is arriving—and with it, the mix of heat, humidity and unstable air that fuels these bursts of wild weather.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A tornado touches down north of Jarrell in Williamson County along Interstate 35 on May 27, 1997. A tornado is a violently ...

Thunderstorms are known to form preferentially on warm, humid days with unstable air. But predicting where exactly a thunderstorm will develop has so far remained extremely difficult. Heavy rainfall ...

“Everything is bigger in Texas,” and thunderstorms in the state are no exception. North, South-Central and East Texas typically experience 30 to 50 thunderstorm days annually in each region. Southeast ...