HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Today on Weather U, we're discussing lightning and severe storms, and how they form. Lightning is a discharge of electricity in the atmosphere between clouds, the air, or the ...

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - Have you ever looked up to the sky during a storm to see a massive bolt of lightning and wondered how does that form? Well, the WITN WEATHER TEAM has you covered... STEP #1: ...

Superbolts of lightning are rare; they only make up about one percent of all lightning strikes. But they are incredibly strong; compared to the average lightning strike, which carries about 300 ...

The collision of two lightning-bolts-in-the-making spawned an exceedingly brief but extremely energetic flash of gamma rays. This first-of-its-kind observation may help explain an origin of some of ...

LYNCHBURG, Va. (WSET) — How does lightning form in a thunderstorm? As a storm is developing, the bottom of the cloud holds raindrops. The top of the cloud is colder and below freezing. It contains ice ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Thunderstorms are very common occurrences across Nebraska and Iowa during the Spring and Summer months, so common that you may not think twice about those flashes of light and ...

Summer 2024 is already smokin’ hot, and not in a good way. Deadly heat waves and record-breaking temperatures are affecting millions of Americans in the warmest months of the year. Summer ...

The odds of being hit by lightning in any given year are less than one in a million, but one expert says that number may be ...

In the United States, most lightning deaths are reported during the summer months, with July being the deadliest. Lightning strikes ramp up in the summer due to the increase in warm temperatures and ...

When lightning strikes the ground, it can leave behind a root-like rock called a fulgurite. Host Maddie Sofia talks with NPR science correspondent Nell Greenfieldboyce about what lightning and its ...