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 ...

MOLINE, Ill. — Editor's Note: The video above is from Jan. 24. The thunderstorm earlier this week gave us a little taste of spring weather. As we get closer to experiencing more convective weather, ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Lightning is one of the most powerful and dangerous natural phenomena on Earth. A giant spark of static electricity, lightning serves as a type of “neutralizer” for electric charges ...

Our planet is crackling with more electrical energy than ever before. Scientists worldwide are documenting an alarming trend ...

As particles rub together from wind friction in a thunderstorm, the charges separate and static electricity develops. The negative charges or electrons separate to the bottom of the thunderstorm, ...

(WLUK) -- The weather was whisper-quiet today for the first time in a few days. All those storms over this past weekend didn't just produce a lot of lightning; they produced multiple types of ...

LOUISVILLE, Colo. — Most wildfires are caused by humans, and when there are humans around to start them, that usually means there are also humans close by to put them out. Lightning is only to blame ...

Seeing the bright flash of lightning, followed by some thunder, and a whole lot of rain is a normal experience for many people across the country. These types of thunderstorms are a common weather ...

Lightning strikes can more than double some mushroom crops, according to ongoing experiments that are jolting fungi with ...

Louisiana is no stranger to lightning storms, especially during the summer. This is when the atmosphere is most convectively active, producing the charged particles needed for lightning. Lightning is ...