During springtime in Houston, a steamy afternoon can quickly give way to towering cumulonimbus clouds overhead. Often called "popcorn storms," these cells bubble up quickly and fade just as fast. But ...

"Different storms are driven by different physical processes," said Dr. John Nielsen-Gammon, a Texas A&M University atmospheric scientist and a co-author of the study. "Once you separate storms by ...

Severe storms eyeing the Chicago area Tuesday have the potential to produce supercells, considered to be one of the most powerful types of storm. But what exactly are they and what makes them so ...

Winter is here and so are nor’easters. A nor’easter is a powerful low-pressure system that forms along the East Coast of North America. Named after the direction in which the strongest winds blow, ...

Urban landscapes can exacerbate flood risk by increasing the fraction of total rainfall that flows on the land surface, relative to that proportion in natural settings, and by making land surfaces ...

Thunderstorms can be triggered by a variety of factors: first, fronts; then an outflow boundary, which is a push of wind out ahead of a main line of storms; and lastly, popcorn or pulse thunderstorms ...

Researchers out of Texas A&M found that some storms tend to intensify around urban areas. The findings could help urban ...