A cloud with considerable vertical growth and precipitation; a thunderstorm. Generally contains an anvil cloud at the top.
Heavy, puffy, heaped, dark cloud of great vertical depth, often bringing rain. Some have a distinctive anvil shaped head.
a dark cloud of great vertical extent charged with electricity; associated with thunderstorms
a cauliflower-shaped cloud that has a height taller than or equal to its width
a towering, dark mass of cumulus cloud associated with thunder and lightning.
A cloud with great vertical extent producing rain, hail, strong winds, lightning, thunder and sometimes tornados. Also called a thunderstorm.
A cumulus cloud that is vertically developed and often has an anvil shaped top. Generally associated with lightning, thunder, heavy showers, and occasionally hail and strong winds.
A cloud characterized by strong vertical development in the form of mountains or huge towers, topped at least partially by a smooth, flat anvil. This type of cloud is more commonly known as a thunderstorm or thunderhead.
The parent cloud of a thunderstorm. The cumulonimbus cloud towers above ordinary cumulus clouds, with stronger or severe storms often having a more sharply outlined "hard" appearance with relatively rapid rising motions visible. The cloud's upper portion includes the anvil. Accompanying precipitation is often heavy and the usual occurrences of lightning and thunder with these clouds leads to the popular names of thunderhead or thundercloud. See also Thunderstorm.
A vertically developed cloud, often capped by an anvil shaped cloud. Also called a thunderstorm cloud, it is frequently accompanied by heavy showers, lightning, thunder, and sometimes hail or gusty winds.
A well developed vertical cloud that often has top shaped like an anvil. These clouds are very dense with condensed and deposited water. Weather associated with this cloud includes: strong winds; hail; lightning; tornadoes; thunder; and heavy rain. When this weather occurs these clouds are then thunderstorms. Can extend in altitude from a few hundred meters above the surface to more than 12,000 meters.
Cumulonimbus (Cb) is a type of cloud that is tall, dense, and involved in thunderstorms and other bad weather. The clouds can form alone, in clusters, or along a cold front in a squall line. Cumulonimbus clouds form from cumulus clouds.