Thundersnow is possible, but it is pretty rare. The reason has to do with the conditions needed for lightning to form in a ...

Thunderstorms often begin to develop early in the day when the sun heats the air near the ground and pockets of warmer air start to rise in the atmosphere. When these pockets of air reach a certain ...

The dance of electrical charges high above us is more complex than most people realize. While we typically think of lightning as bright bolts striking the ground, the vast majority of lightning ...

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: ...

Our eyes deceive us when lightning strikes like a giant spark cracking the sky in two. That giant spark is only as big around as a golf ball. Like everything else in nature, it happens for a reason.

It's one of nature's most striking regular phenomena, but you may not know that lightning can appear in many different forms. Intracloud lightning is contained within one cloud jumping between ...

Scientists who study lightning say the more they can learn, the more society can work to protect people and property from ...

A storm chaser says he "screamed" when he captured an elusive natural phenomenon, known as red sprites, on video.

Flashes of lightning and rumbles of thunder are common in Southwest Florida; however, many people ignore the dangers associated with them. So far this year, two reported lightning-related deaths have ...

Skies will be partly cloudy this morning in the mountains and along the Front Range with upper level moisture producing a blend of cloud structures - which should be neat to look at. The main story ...

An updated report was issued from the NWS Sacramento CA on Saturday at 2:54 p.m. for strong thunderstorms until 3:30 p.m. for ...

The NWS Hanford CA issued a weather alert at 2:18 p.m. on Saturday for strong thunderstorms until 2:45 p.m. for West Side Mountains north of 198 and Los Banos - Dos Palos.