A storm chaser discovered a flaming hay bale on Thursday night while following a lightning storm that blanketed parts of ...

On June 28, 2025, in Hunt Valley, Maryland, USA, @davemchugh shared a video capturing a gloomy day with dark clouds forming ...

A couple stepped onto the back porch of their home near Rich Valley, Alta., just before 7 p.m. to get a closer look at the ...

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Lightning is hotter than the surface of the sun and kills up to 20 people in the United States each year, but how exactly ...

Michael Peterson, an applied physicist at the Severe Storms Research Center at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, is one of ...

About 600 miles off the west coast of Africa, large clusters of thunderstorms begin organizing into tropical storms every ...

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A rare and visually stunning electrical phenomenon lit up the skies over North America earlier this week, as NASA astronaut ...

Every lightning strike begins as a silent exchange of charge — leaders reaching down, streamers rising up — until, in an ...

A couple stepped onto the back porch of their home near Rich Valley, Alta., just before 7 p.m. to get a closer look at the storm passing through when they saw something strange.