Lightning in Ball Ground This great photo of lightning in Ball Ground, Georgia in Cherokee County was posted to WSB-TV's Severe Weather Team 2 Facebook page by David Wentworth Jr. (David Wentworth ...

A new technique pioneered by scientists at the University of Maryland uses lasers to create a “little ball of lightning” than can help detect radiation at least up to 10 meters from the source.

There’s also fork lightning which flows between a cloud and the ground. And even ball lightning. When lightning happens, it heats the air to around 10,000 °C. As the air heats so quickly it ...

David Wentworth Jr. posted this lightning photo to the WSB-TV’s Severe Weather Team 2 Facebook group with the caption: “Ball Ground getting some action with a lot of Cloud to Cloud and Cloud ...