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There are research facilities where he could reduce at least some of the variables by deploying the Kahuna on lightning triggered by firing rockets into storm clouds. But Samaras is dismissive of ...

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"If you hear thunder, you are likely within striking distance of the storm." In the U.S., there are between 20 million and 25 million cloud-to-ground lightning flashes every year, the Lightning ...

An atmospheric river brought additional rain, strong winds, and flooding to the Bay Area Tuesday, with an increasing chance ...

Thundersnow is just a thunderstorm that produces snow instead of rain. This relatively uncommon phenomenon is usually found in mountainous areas, near the Great Lakes, and across communities affected ...

A lightning event, according to Vaisala, is when lightning is either detected inside clouds or between clouds and the ground. To measure a lightning event, Vaisala uses its detection networks ...

Lightning, wind and driving rain have wreaked havoc in northern NSW, felling trees, cutting off roads and properties and leaving more than 25,000 properties without electricity.

The more violently wind shear destabilises a storm system, the more lightning is unleashed, as differences between positively and negatively charged regions of a cloud grow more dramatic.