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

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: ...

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

A Amanda Gumber, research assistant, Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: Thunder is formed by the intense heating produced by lightning. The thunder you hear ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – Lightning is one of nature’s most electrifying spectacles—literally. According to the National Weather Service, thunderstorms form when key ingredients—moisture, instability and ...

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Lightning sits at the boundary between routine weather and sudden hazard. It appears briefly, illuminates a landscape, and ...

DENVER (KDVR) — “Don’t shower during a thunderstorm” and “lightning never strikes in the same place twice” are tips you may have heard growing up, and while some phrases are true, others can do more ...