As a massive storm swept through central Alberta in early July, a couple stood on their porch watching bolts of lightning play across the cloudy skies. A particularly massive lightning strike hit ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. image of ball lightning During a recent lightning storm, a couple from Canada caught a rare weather mystery on camera. Right from ...

From bolts to blue jets, lightning comes in many strange forms.

It only takes one close encounter with a lightning strike to get the full sense of its power. At around 1 gigaJoule of energy ...

A couple have been left astounded after a thunderstorm produced a glowing orb of light thought to be mysterious ‘ball lightning’. Ed and Melinda Pardy were watching a storm from their porch in Alberta ...

I saw a 20-second security camera clip on Facebook of ball lightning. It came out of the sky, rolled, and “walked” around a parking lot as if alive, then disappeared. Scientists to this day do not ...

Ball lightning and plasmoid phenomena have long captured the interest of both the scientific community and the general public due to their rare and enigmatic nature. Ball lightning is typically ...

Researchers have discovered what appears to be the earliest known account of a rare weather phenomenon called ball lightning in England. Scientists at Amherst College and Aalto University have created ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. — 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: as a ...