As noted above, convection helps produce thunderstorms. It's unusual to have convection within a winter storm. Thunder and lightning are much more common in warm-season thunderstorms, according to ...

These booming sounds are caused by lightning, and these two natural phenomena — lightning and thunder — go hand in hand. Even though they co-occur, they reach us at different times, thanks to ...

Lightning striking without thunder is where “heat” lightning falls apart. Thunder starts as a shockwave from the explosively expanding lightning channel when a large current causes rapid ...

Thundersnow is exactly what the name suggests – a snowy thunderstorm. But the winter version of a thunderstorm is far less frequent than the spring and summer thunderstorms most people are used to.

Thunder and Lightning from Black Lightning Pic credit: Warner Bros/The CW. Black Lightning is ending with its current fourth season on The CW.. However, producer Salim Akil has revealed that the ...

Thunder is created as the result of the rapid expansion of the air that surrounds a bolt of lightning. Because thunder happens so quickly, the air has no time to expand.

Until recent decades, we didn’t know if the phenomenon was even real. Now scientists are peeling back why thunder and lightning can happen in a snowstorm.