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 ...

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 ...

Under normal conditions, these electrons do little. Inside a charged storm cloud, they become something else entirely. As the electric field pushes electrons faster and faster, they slam into air ...

With upward lightning, it is often triggered by tall objects like wind turbines, skyscrapers or radio towers. These metal objects bring the ground closer to the sky and have an easier time launching ...

A research team at Los Alamos National Laboratory recently found that the strength difference between two very high-frequency radio pulses in lightning is closely related to the altitude of the ...