Thunder is one of nature’s most dramatic sounds, accompanying brilliant flashes of lightning during a storm. But what causes this rumbling roar in the sky? To understand thunder, we must first explore ...

A massive thunderstorm turns the sky dark over a field in Sweden. Thunderstorms can inspire the entire range of human emotion with their vivid displays of nature's fury. Storms are used to set an ...

When those thunderstorms formed that spawned the deadly tornadoes across the south earlier thsi week formed, some of them reached incredible heights over 50,000 feet tall -- thats' nearly 10 miles ...

The amount of moisture in soil – and the way this moisture is distributed – combined with wind patterns in the lowest few kilometres of the atmosphere can influence where thunderstorms begin and how ...