Thunder and lightning are scary enough when you're on the ground, but when you're thousands of feet up in the air, it's on a ...

Will Jones from Smithfield, North Carolina, sent me the above picture during Saturday evening's storms. Growing up, I always ...

An airplane flying between oppositely charged regions can trigger lightning within a cloud, from cloud to cloud, or from cloud to ground. Chris Cosner Every airliner is struck by lightning in ...

When the difference in charges becomes too great between that in the cloud and the ground there is a rapid discharge of electricity that we know as lightning. What to do if you're outsideIf you ...

Scientists and engineers at the Japanese telecommunications company Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) ...

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 ...

On Saturday at 5:12 p.m. the National Weather Service issued an updated severe thunderstorm warning in effect until 5:30 p.m.

A new caged drone has been developed that can trigger lightning strikes and can safely redirect the electricity.

Yosemite and Upper San Joaquin River were placed under a report for strong thunderstorms by the National Weather Service on ...

On Saturday at 5:06 p.m. a severe thunderstorm warning was released by the National Weather Service in effect until 5:30 p.m.

On Saturday at 5:58 p.m. the National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm warning in effect until 6:45 p.m. for ...