Funnel clouds most often occur in the spring and early summer and in the later afternoon and early evening.
Yes. Funnel clouds ar usually visible unless they are obscured by rain.
Funnel clouds typically occur in association with severe thunderstorms or tornadoes. They form when rotating air in the atmosphere creates a narrow, rotating column of cloud droplets or debris. Funnel clouds do not always reach the ground and become tornadoes, but they indicate the potential for severe weather.
Those funnel clouds are very ominous.
They are often visible as funnel clouds, but these clouds are not necessarily very large.
No. A cirrus cloud is a high, wavy, thin cloud formed of ice crystals. Funnel clouds are usually formed from cumulonimbus clouds (thunderclouds) at lower altitudes.
Tornadoes are associated with funnel clouds.
The visible funnel usually extends from the clouds to the ground but the vortex can extend several miles up into the storm.
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Yes. Many funnel clouds never touch down.
it usually occurs in the afternoon
funnel clouds. Other signs that a tornado may soon occur include a lowering of the cloud base and rotation in the clouds during a thunderstorm.
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