About 300,000 electricity customers in Michigan, Wisconsin and Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, were without power ...

In storm clouds, however, those additional droplets freeze into ice crystals, making the effects of aerosol particles on storms tricky to pin down. The freezing of cloud droplets releases latent heat ...

In storm clouds, however, those additional droplets freeze into ice crystals, making the effects of aerosol particles on ...

The clouds at the high levels of the thunderstorm are made of ice crystals. The formation of ice in a cloud is an important element in the development of lightning. Those storms that fail to ...

and they're a common occurrence in thunderstorms. There are two methods of hail stone formation and growth that give hail stones their "layered" look. A tiny ice crystal will be the nucleus of the ...

That unplanned experiment demonstrates how thunderstorms, which can be 10 miles ... collisions between snowflake-like ice crystals and denser chunks of ice. When the charged, lightweight ice ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Chris Wright, University of Washington (THE CONVERSATION) If you look at a map of ...