How lightning creates thunder, why you see the flash before the boom, and how to tell if a storm is getting closer.

This week's question comes from Morning Brief reader Mark: "I recently saw a video of upward lightning in Oregon. How and why ...

Experts say tens of millions of lightning bolts (cloud-to-cloud and ground strikes) every year across Florida.

Deep, clean convective clouds can reach high supersaturation levels that may allow aerosols to intensify cloud growth.

Rain delays are a familiar part of NASCAR weekends, but getting thousands of gallons of water off a speedway is a remarkably ...

When a wildfire grows big and hot enough, it fuels its own storms that spark lightning, unleash winds and spin up 140 mph firenadoes.

After witnessing a rare lightning strike, Bob Dugan dedicated his life to predicting storms and protecting others with Thor ...

For more than a decade, these Kolkatans have spent their weekends driving towards cyclones, thunderstorms and towering storm cells. Armed with weather models, radar imagery and cameras, the Kolkata ...

A 13-year-old boy in Cypress, Texas got a jolt he never saw coming, and no, it wasn’t from his video game. Vlad was doing ...

If our truck could shield us from dangerous lightning on the surface of a volcano, just how safe would I be aboard an ...

Sub-Neptunes are the most common type of planet in our galaxy. Bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, these worlds ...

The Greater Lake Tahoe Area and Greater Reno-Carson City-Minden area are included in an updated report for strong ...