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 ...

Lightning has fascinated and ... it repels all the negative charges in the surrounding area and attracts all the positive charge. As the positive charges collect in high enough concentration ...

Charge comes in two forms, positive and negative. For example, a negative charge causes a repulsive force on a neighbouring negative charge. is a property of a body which experiences a force in an ...

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 ...

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 ...

Normally, the positive and negative charges cancel out because there are the same number of each. So the atom has no overall charge - it is neutral. But when you rub one, neutral, electrically ...