Globally, lightning is responsible for over 4,000 fatalities and billions of dollars in damage every year; Switzerland itself weathers up to 150,000 strikes annually. Understanding exactly how ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — While our team of meteorologists track storms, our equipment tracks lightning data. KELOLAND sees a variety of weather during the summer, from general thunderstorms to ...

Inside a thunderstorm, warm air is forced upward in a strong updraft. As the air rises, ice and water particles collide inside the cloud, creating electrical charges. Those collisions build up ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – Lightning is one of nature’s most electrifying spectacles—literally. According to the National Weather Service, thunderstorms form when key ingredients—moisture, instability and ...

Positive charges distributed in the air are concentrated near the conventional air-termination, so positive polarity lightning of the same polarity avoids the positive charges and possibly strike the ...

A woman in Boynton Beach, FL has captured a rare positive lightning strike on camera. "Wow," is pretty much all we can say, possibly followed by some expletives. Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...

Scientifically, there is no difference between heat lightning and regular lightning. The reason thunder isn't heard is ...