These aren't your everyday fluffy cumulus clouds or storm clouds. These are gravity wave clouds -- a fascinating weather phenomenon that can form under specific conditions. Let's raise your Weather IQ ...

When a front moves through or on just a regular day we can see middle tiered clouds here at home. Altocumulus clouds ...

When warm ocean air rises it starts to cool and clouds form creating an area of high pressure. Cyclones, hurricanes and typhoons are all the same kind of storm, one that spins and is fed by warm air.

The Bureau of Meteorology believes a destructive storm that lashed the town ... of a funnel cloud … a sort of triangular cloud formation which can form underneath particularly strong supercell ...