Lenticular Clouds Lenticular clouds, with their distinctive lens shape, often hover over mountain ranges like alien spaceships. These stationary clouds form when moist air flows over mountains or ...

Winds blowing up the side of mountainous terrain can provide the oomph necessary for cumulonimbus clouds robust enough to generate lightning.

"Lightning originates from a cloud called cumulonimbus cloud which normally contains high perceptible water content with upward and downward movement of air," Gahigi said. "The upward and downward ...

“Lightning strikes are increasing,” Kato said. “Nowadays, cumulonimbus clouds form over wide areas, and thunderstorms with heavy downpours can occur several times every few hours.

A frozen form of precipitation consisting of individual balls or lumps of ice called hail stones, produced from cumulonimbus or thunderstorm clouds. A bigger hail stone signifies a longer lifespan ...

“Lightning originates from a cloud called cumulonimbus cloud which normally contains high perceptible water content with upward and downward movement of air,” Gahigi said. “The upward and ...