A low pressure system will skim the Southern California coast Tuesday through Wednesday, bringing the chance of dry lightning ...

Southern California is preparing for a trio of hazardous weather conditions, including thunderstorms, dry lightning, and rip ...

Ever sit outside on a warm summer's evening and notice flashes of lightning, but no actual rain clouds near you? This is commonly referred to as "heat" lightning. While it's not uncommon to see ...

Over flat terrain, the lightning flashes can be seen up to 100 miles away. While lightning normally produces thunder, the sound of thunder rarely travels more than 10 miles.” So distant (or ...

The strong currents of air in thunderstorms can cause air and water to shoot up and down very quickly. When this happens, ...

Lightning flashes can often be seen without hearing thunder due to how far away a storm might be. Reflections from lightning flashes can be carried large distances via high-level clouds but sounds ...

NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain were the latest to share images of lightning as seen from 250 miles above Earth.

The team found that in the later period, climate change may boost updraft within thunderstorms, causing hot lightning flashes to increase in frequency to about 4 strikes per second globally ...

How about a little thundersnow. Reports of lightning flashes and thunder embedded in this intense storm system sweeping across Michigan were reported in the Ann Arbor area, Flint and Detroit on ...

Each year, Earth experiences about 1.4 billion lightning flashes, with over 460,000 strikes occurring in the Buckeye State. While many of these strikes seem random, they serve an essential ...