Blink and you will miss it. A rare red lightning phenomenon illuminated the dark sky above Tibet over the weekend, setting ...

Over 20 years, I’ve made 94 trips to photograph lightning over Washington D.C.’s monuments and memorials — never skipping a thunderstorm season. Some years, I photographed dozens of ...

But the satellite’s onboard lightning-detection system only spotted occasional flashes. For Van Eaton ... forefront and Hunga Tonga Island in the background on January 14, 2022, a day before ...

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

For the first time, scientists have caught lightning in the act of unleashing a powerful burst of gamma radiation known as a ...

About 242 million lightning flashes were recorded during 2023 in the U.S., according to a recent report by Vaisala Xweather, which tracks each stroke of lightning. That's the most in at least the ...

ACCORDING to a message from Science Service, flashes of lightning photographed by a cine-camera by J. W. Beams, L. B. Snoddy and E. J. Workman, of the Universities of New Mexico and Virginia ...

The January 2022 eruption generated more than 192,000 lightning flashes and sent a volcanic plume of ash 36 miles into the sky. The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcanic eruption, which produced the ...

About half the time, an individual lightning flash strikes the ground in several locations, some as much as five miles apart. This finding contradicts the old thinking that five miles is a safe ...

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 ...

Ohio ranks No. 22 on Vaisala Xweather's list for total lightning count, at 2,865,371 flashes, behind Indiana but ahead of North Dakota. Texas is far and away the No. 1 state for lightning strikes ...