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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ATLANTA, Ga. (WSAV) — Tuesday, a funnel-shaped cloud over Atlanta raised concerns about a tornado. But it was just a harmless scud cloud. The National Weather Service says scud clouds are commonly ...

A scary-looking 'doomsday' cloud rolled through Maryland last week, leaving locals terrified a world-ending storm was brewing. The ominous white tornado-shaped cloud funneled down from massive dark ...