Why Lightning Happens — And Why It’s So Dangerous. Meteorologist Matt Bullock explains.

It's one of nature's most striking regular phenomena, but you may not know that lightning can appear in many different forms. Intracloud lightning is contained within one cloud jumping between ...

These brief bursts blue jets, red sprites, ELVES are collectively termed transient luminous events, or TLEs. They explode tens of kilometers high over thunderstorms, in the rarefied atmosphere of the ...

"Thunder is impressive," Mark Twain wrote, "but it is lightning that does the work." Anyone who's watched a lightning storm will understand what he meant: Lightning is one of nature's most ...

INTRODUCTION TO LIGHTNING: Lightning and thunderclouds -- The stepped leader -- The return stroke -- The dart leader -- More on strokes and flashes -- Intracloud discharges -- Strokes bringing ...

More than 70 aircraft are struck by lightning every day. If you happen to be flying when a strike occurs, chances are you won’t feel a thing, thanks to lightning protection measures that are embedded ...

The numbers are out, and Texas once again topped the list for the most lightning strikes out of any state in the United ...

Researchers in Germany assessed lightning risks in livestock-integrated agrivoltaic systems, identifying key injury mechanisms and establishing safe step and touch voltage limits. Their simulations ...