Tri-state area: this megaflash contained a superbolt that was 1000 times brighter than normal lightning. It was observed by the Geostationary Lightning Mapper and covers much of Tennessee, extending ...

Dr. Jian Li, the academic leader of the laboratory, says, "In the future, we plan to enhance the accuracy of our lightning prediction model by integrating more data sources related to lightning ...

Along with many other natural phenomena, lightning is probably familiar to most. Between its intense noise and visuals, there is also very little disagreement that getting hit by a lightning strike is ...

Thunderstorms often begin to develop early in the day when the sun heats the air near the ground and pockets of warmer air start to rise in the atmosphere. When these pockets of air reach a certain ...

The crack of lightning has always seemed straightforward — clouds build up electric charge, and eventually, it snaps. But the chain of events that lights the sky has remained an atmospheric puzzle for ...