Updraft: A relatively small-scale current of air with marked upward motion. The term is frequently used in describing rising air currents associated with cumulus and cumulonimbus (thunderhead) clouds.

The updraft air then spreads horizontally into a so-called “anvil top.” ... Current 70° Partly Cloudy. Tonight 68° Partly Cloudy Precip: 2% Tomorrow 80° ...

Thunderstorms need an updraft, a powerful upward air current that moves water droplets above a freezing layer. The droplets remain in liquid form at temperatures below freezing.

Peng Yujiang, 55, was testing new equipment at 3,000m above sea level, over the Qilian mountains, when a rare updraft or air current known as a "cloud suck" pulled him about 5,000m higher into a ...

An updraft is an upward moving air current inside a thunderstorm. It forms when areas of warm, moist air become hotter than their surrounding environment, and thereby, rise.

A paraglider in China has survived an unexpected climb to 28,208 feet in the air without oxygen after being caught in a powerful updraft, according to an account told to Chinese Central Television ...

A Chinese paraglider has claimed to have survived being accidentally propelled 8,500m (27,800ft) into the sky above north-west China, state media report.