The most common and dangerous is cloud-to-ground lightning, where a bolt travels from a cloud to the Earth's surface. Intra-cloud lightning occurs within a single cloud, often creating a flicker ...

A home in Everett was reportedly struck by lightning just before 8:30 p.m., according to the Everett Fire Department.

During the storms that persisted on Wednesday, over 1,100 lightning strikes were recorded across Washington. Radar data revealed extensive transmission of lightning, from the coastal regions to even ...

As climate change drives floods and drought, rainmaking is in fashion across the world, despite mixed evidence that it works and concerns it can stoke cross-border tensions. While attempting to ...

When the charged, lightweight ice crystals are lofted as the denser ice falls, the cloud becomes a giant capacitor, building ...

Earth is struck by some 44 bolts of lightning each second ... "A CRS provides an ionized path in the cloud that directs and enables the fast propagation of the discharges. "The shower's high ...

As the water vapor condenses, the air and the water vapor form a cloud, which eventually rises ... of electric charges build up to create a bolt of lightning, which creates the sound we know ...

the cloud becomes a giant capacitor, building electrical energy as the ice crystals bump past each other. Eventually, that capacitor discharges, and out shoots a lightning bolt, five times hotter ...

Lightning is a mesmerizing natural phenomenon that captures the awe of anyone who witnesses it. But what exactly is lightning? At its core, lightning is a sudden discharge of static electricity ...