Lightning touched off dozens of fires in Northern California in August. (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) To understand this, it's important to keep the three-dimensional nature of the ...

You’re relaxing in your lawn chair outside during a warm summer night after a hot and humid afternoon when you notice a distant flash of light in the sky. It occurs ...

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 ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Lightning is fascinating to watch but also extremely dangerous. In the United States, there are about 25 million lightning flashes every year. Each of those 25 million flashes is ...

Over two summer days in June 2012, a NASA aircraft called DC-8 daringly flew at a speed of 200 meters per second through deep clouds and threw itself into the eye of a tumultuous thunderstorm. DC-8 ...

Amid the nation’s first heat wave of the summer season, lightning killed one honeymooner enjoying the beach in Florida and injured 20 others cooling off on a South Carolina lake. More than 30 people ...

The thunderstorms rolling through Lower Michigan this morning had some interesting cloud features. A few comments mentioned ‘scary clouds." Here are my thoughts about how to tell severe storm clouds ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — July is the month for lightning in the state of Florida! No place outside is safe from lightning, so the best thing you can do to keep yourself and your loved ones protected is to ...

Sometimes, wildfires can create their own weather. Pyrocumulonimbus are an explosive storm cloud actually created by the smoke and heat from a wildfire. Some of the ferocious wildfires this summer in ...