You see lightning in the distance and wait for thunder, but hear nothing. Was there a glitch in the matrix? Not quite. What you’ve just seen is heat lightning. But there is a gotcha here: heat ...

Will Jones from Smithfield, North Carolina, sent me the above picture during Saturday evening's storms. Growing up, I always heard this called "heat lightning." Other WRAL Top Stories It wasn't until ...

ST. LOUIS (KTVI) – We’ve likely all heard of the term “heat lightning” on a summer evening when those strong bolts of electricity can be seen, but there’s never any thunder to follow. What many don’t ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — When it comes to the weather, no two days are the same and no two weather systems or storms are ever the same either. As we move into the warmer months though, we enter pop-up storm ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Summer evenings can often deliver storms seen firing in the distance with frequent flashing, but ...

In the previous "Weather Works" episode, we talked about how lightning forms. But mainly during the summertime, people refer to lightning that strikes in the distance but cannot be heard as heat ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - On a dry summer night, you may see lightning without any storms in sight. You might have heard of the term heat lightning, the idea that lightning can strike without a storm on ...