Lightning is one of nature's most awesome displays, but it can also be one of its most deadly. Thankfully, there's a way to ...

As climate change drives floods and drought, rainmaking is in fashion across the world, despite mixed evidence that it works and concerns it can stoke cross-border tensions. While attempting to ...

Scientists have revealed a hidden trigger of lightning that could resolve a centuries-old weather mystery. Earth is struck by ...

An unplanned experiment takes scientists closer to solving a long-standing mystery: To what extent, if any, have ...

The most common and dangerous is cloud-to-ground lightning, where a bolt travels from a cloud to the Earth's surface. Intra-cloud lightning occurs within a single cloud, often creating a flicker ...

SEATTLE — Widespread thunderstorms are possible across western Washington Wednesday afternoon into the night, thanks to an ...

The temperature of a lightning bolt is 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit ... we are usually referring to cloud-to-ground lightning (CG). There are many other types and even colors of lightning!

Lightning has fascinated and excited humans for as long as they have watched the skies. Although meteorologists understand the cloud conditions necessary to produce it, lightning cannot be forecasted.

the cloud becomes a giant capacitor, building electrical energy as the ice crystals bump past each other. Eventually, that capacitor discharges, and out shoots a lightning bolt, five times hotter ...