Lightning is one of nature's most awesome displays, but it can also be one of its most deadly. Thankfully, there's a way to ...

Can you guess which of New Jersey's 564 municipalities experienced the highest density of lightning events last year?

On Sunday afternoon, social media users reported the appearance of a "funnel cloud" in Camagüey province during a fierce ...

That "something else" appears to originate from space.

Stronger winds in the upper atmosphere contribute to the tilted appearance of a thunderstorm cloud. Directional ... quite simple: when lightning strikes, the air surrounding the lightning strike ...

Thunderstorms, known as cumulonimbus ... cloud” in Latin), are towering cloud formations that develop when the atmosphere has sufficient instability, moisture and lift, or a force to push air ...

Cumulonimbus clouds, or thunderclouds ... At the Omiya Bonsai Art Museum in Saitama city, air conditioners failed during a lightning storm on the night of Aug. 7. Lightning hit the circuit ...