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 ...

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 ...

5pm July 4th | Tropical Depression Three has formed off the southeast U.S. coast. Direct impacts from this system are not expected across east central Florida, but rain and scattered lightning storm ...

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers captured a rare and stunning image of a ‘sprite’ — a Transient Luminous Event (TLE)—from space.

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

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.

For years, various sayings and myths have downplayed the threat of lightning. But after two females were struck near a north ...

The NWS Wakefield VA issued an updated report at 2:28 p.m. on Wednesday for strong thunderstorms until 2:45 p.m. The alert is ...