There are research facilities where he could reduce at least some of the variables by deploying the Kahuna on lightning triggered by firing rockets into storm clouds. But Samaras is dismissive of ...

Lightning is Incredibly Hot When people think of heat, they often think of things like boiling water or a hot summer's day.

A single lightning strike can release a 30 million-volt surge, enough to severely injure or kill a person in an instant.

By Wednesday night, thunderstorms will become increasingly likely, especially after midnight. This round of thunderstorms ...

With the wildfires continuing to burn in California, you may have seen claims that wildfires can create their own weather. It ...

A weather alert was issued by the NWS Raleigh NC on Friday at 3:47 a.m. for thunderstorms until 4:30 a.m. The alert is for Franklin, Nash, Edgecombe, Wake, Johnston and Wilson counties.

Wednesday’s destructive storm was lit up by flashes of lightning, with more than 70,000 strikes recorded within 100 ...

Lightning, wind and driving rain have wreaked havoc in northern NSW, felling trees, cutting off roads and properties and ...

The massive winter storm that pummeled a 1,500-mile swath ... air also helped some upward motion to occur in the clouds, leading to lightning strikes. Thunder and lightning accompanied the snow ...

See which towns have the highest snowfall totals as of Sunday night, and where lightning and thundersnow occurred.

TONIGHT: Heavy thunderstorms. Rain chance is 100%. Low: 55. Wind: SE 10-15 mph. THURSDAY: Heavy rain and thunderstorms early ...

The more violently wind shear destabilises a storm system, the more lightning is unleashed, as differences between positively and negatively charged regions of a cloud grow more dramatic.