Weather officials say different types of clouds can tell you what kind of weather to expect. Here's a look at the different ...

These repetitive pouches are your mammatus clouds. Check out a couple pictures that were sent to us Sunday evening. The one below, from Kevin Stewart in Angier, shows the wide view of the anvil ...

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 ...

or striated and nearly always flattened in the shape of an anvil or vast plume. Under the base of the cloud, which is often very dark, there are commonly low ragged clouds that may or may not ...

Typically these kind of clouds will form at the bottom of the anvil in a cumulonimbus cloud. It’s very common that these kind of clouds are associated with severe thunderstorms. When the anvil ...

In some cases, you can see the Sun or Moon through them. Cirrus clouds that forms atop a thunderstorm spread outward and can form anvil clouds. These clouds flatten on top as they reach the ...

I’m a meteorologist, and I’ve been fascinated by weather since I was 8 years old. I grew up in Minnesota, where the weather changes from wind-whipping blizzards in winter to severe ...

Prior to severe thunderstorms in Cumberland and Sampson counties Sunday evening, some of you saw a unique cloud formation. Mammatus clouds will sometimes form within the anvil of a thunderstorm.

or striated and nearly always flattened in the shape of an anvil or vast plume. Under the base of the cloud, which is often very dark, there are commonly low ragged clouds that may or may not ...