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

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 ...

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers proved this just last summer. On July 1, 2025 the former ISS crew member documented a dramatic ...

Lightning flashes streak across the sky in the German countryside. One large flash is mostly horizontal, another one is vertical. Sometimes lightning bolts can stretch hundreds of miles horizontally.

A bright flash and then a thick, billowing cloud of smoke. That's what a security camera captured when a bolt of lightning struck a parked, unoccupied Newcastle police cruiser during a storm. A ...

The age-old maxim says lightning never strikes the same place twice. Florida would beg to disagree.The state is the lightning capital of the United States as measured in deaths by lightning, with four ...