For as long as people have watched storms roll across the sky, lightning has inspired awe and fear. You can see the flash and ...

There are also some other rarer, even more spectacular types of lightning: ...

Thundersnow is possible, but it is pretty rare. The reason has to do with the conditions needed for lightning to form in a ...

The dance of electrical charges high above us is more complex than most people realize. While we typically think of lightning as bright bolts striking the ground, the vast majority of lightning ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — With all thunderstorms comes lightning. Of the various types of lightning, one that meteorologists monitor closely is cloud-to-ground lightning. Here’s how it works: ...

Pyrocumulonimbus clouds (pyroCb), also known as fire generated thunderstorms, are a dangerous fire behaviour that occurs ...

A new study suggests that cloud-to-ground lightning might have been key in creating the building blocks essential for life on Earth from nitrogen and carbon. In Earth's early days, comets, asteroids ...

As severe storms battered the Chicago area Tuesday evening, many were quick to notice the wild scene unfolding in the sky. A dramatic lightning show was on display in multiple locations. Stream NBC 5 ...

The age-old maxim says lightning never strikes the same place twice. Florida would beg to disagree.The state is the lightning capital of the United States as measured in deaths by lightning, with four ...