For as long as people have watched storms roll across the sky, lightning has inspired awe and fear. You can see the flash and ...

Lightning has captured people's fascination for millennia. It's embedded in mythology, religion and popular culture. Think of ...

Cuts in sulfur emissions from oceangoing vessels have been tied to a reduction in lightning stroke density along heavily ...

Stricter international limits on sulphur in ship fuel are reducing lightning activity along some of the planet’s busiest ...

Cleaner ship fuel has reduced sulfur pollution along major sea lanes, altering cloud formation and leading to fewer lightning ...

Lightning strikes happen when electricity builds up inside storm clouds and between the clouds and the ground. Inside a thunderstorm, tiny ice particles and small hailstones bump into each other as ...

In a typical summertime thunderstorm, warm, moist air rises rapidly into the atmosphere, where it hardens into ice crystals, ...

Thunder snow is pretty awesome and especially when it occurs at night during a heavy snowstorm. As a flash of lightning ...

Thundersnow – a thunderstorm that produces snow instead of rain – is sometimes reported during winter storms in the U.S.