Where there’s lightning, a crash of thunder isn’t far behind. If a storm has passed and the sun has returned, it can make ...

This is called a “step leader” and leads to cloud-to-ground lightning strikes. When negatively charged particles emit their energy to a positive charge, we call that a negative strike.

Lightning is one of the greatest natural forces on our planet. New mapping tools are revealing just how big it is.

“Our findings provide the first precise, quantitative explanation for how lightning initiates in nature,” Victor Pasko, the ...

The GOES satellites are a major part of the puzzle, since they continuously monitor the sky. They also identified the longest ...

Megaflash hot spots include the U.S. Midwest and southeastern South America, site of the previous record-holder, a 709-kilometer-long bolt over parts of Brazil and Argentina. That lightning still ...

Lightning can strike as far as 10 miles from its cloud, known as a “bolt from the blue” A lightning bolt emanates from the top of a cumulonimbus cloud to an area of the ground free fro rain.

Check out Miguel Santiago's lightning photograph above, and video shot by Ruben Zamora along Highway 101 in Prunedale of the funnel cloud below. When will the next storm move over your neighborhood?

The wildfire that destroyed the historic Grand Canyon Lodge​ earlier this month has expanded in recent days, fueled by hot, ...

Earlier this year NASA switched on the Geostationary Lightning Mapper aboard the GOES-16 weather satellite, which will constantly record all the lightning strikes and cloud-to-cloud lightning that ...