It’s Severe Weather Awareness Week and The Weather Authority wants you to be prepared for when severe weather strikes!

One extreme weather event that Florida is notorious for is lightning. While places like Texas might have more lightning ...

As the positive charges collect in high enough concentration, they send out small bolts of ground to air lightning called streamers. If the streamers can make contact with the step leader ...

When lightning strikes, the current’s path is random. A negative charge built up in the clouds reaches down, searching for a corresponding positive charge on the ground. The giant spark that ...

In lightning’s infancy, air acts as an insulator between charges — the positive and negative charges between the cloud and the ground. Once the charges have sufficiently built up, the air’s ...