The 2020 fires – the largest in Bay Area history in terms of acreage burned – resulted from separate ignitions from lightning strikes that rapidly escalated from roughly 25,000 acres on Aug. 18 to ...

Thundersnow – a thunderstorm that produces snow instead of rain – is sometimes reported during winter storms in the U.S.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Penn State-led study reveals the hidden chain reaction that starts lightning, linking electrons, X-rays, and gamma rays. (CREDIT ...

Lightning researchers expect lightning could become more frequent as temperatures rise. Photo by Rick Lipscomb, courtesy NOAA. The age-old maxim says lightning never strikes the same place twice.

The United States has a new lightning champion. Oklahoma has dethroned Florida to become the nation's lightning capital, ...

In Britain, lightning causes an average of two deaths a year; in South Africa, it can be well over 200. Near Pretoria over ...

The University of Malta has offered insight into the monitoring of Storm Harry, which hit Malta and the wider Mediterranean last week, showing how, among other things, the Oceanography Malta Research ...

Cleaner ship fuel has reduced sulfur pollution along major sea lanes, altering cloud formation and leading to fewer lightning ...

The age-old maxim says lightning never strikes the same place twice. Florida would beg to disagree. The state is the lightning capital of the United States as measured in deaths by lightning, with ...