Cosmic rays may play a role in triggering lightning, a new study suggests, offering an out-of-this-world answer to a ...

As storm season gets underway in much of the United States, the National Lighting Safety Council is spreading awareness about ...

The lightning crouch, a baseball-catcher-like stance some cite as a safeguard against lightning strikes, offers no meaningful ...

It is well-established that lightning occurs after clouds build up—and then ... shows "that the initiating fast discharges were not solely driven by the storm electric field." "We analyzed these ...

The lightning crouch, a baseball-catcher-like stance some cite as a safeguard against lightning strikes, offers no meaningful ...

KOCO 5 Field Meteorologist Michael Armstrong was on Highway 270 south of Calumet in Canadian County, where he captured a lightning show.

The worst with the storm is behind, because Thursday is “just looking like a typical spring day for Seattle,” according to ...

A megaflash lightning strike is an unusually long lightning bolt that stretches at least 62 miles. These aren’t your typical ...

Severe storms moved across Oklahoma early Friday morning, bringing hail and loud thunder and lightning to the Sooner State.

The Oregon Lightning, an Arena Football League team based in Redmond, scored an unlikely 41-40 win at the SW Kansas Storm for ...

In fact, Shao added, the strongest electric field ever detected inside storm clouds was 10 times weaker than what would be needed to spark lightning based on that theory. To solve the long ...