ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — With all thunderstorms comes lightning. Of the various types of lightning, one that meteorologists monitor closely is cloud-to-ground lightning. Here’s how it works: ...

Half a million bolts of lightning hit the ground in Colorado each year. And when a thunderstorm is moving through southern Colorado, you'll see the First Alert 5 team showing you those lightning ...

The science pros at The King of Random make lightning using a Coke bottle and share how it works. Senate Democrats block government funding bill for 13th time Why the "no hire, no fire" job market may ...

Scientists have long understood why lightning forms, but the atomic processes at the core of the phenomenon have remained largely a mystery—especially the strange mechanics behind terrestrial ...

A full understanding of how lightning forms in the clouds has eluded scientists, but new research promises to solve this enduring mystery. Reading time 2 minutes Lightning has long terrified and ...

Lightning flashes streak across the sky in the German countryside. One large flash is mostly horizontal, another one is vertical. Sometimes lightning bolts can stretch hundreds of miles horizontally.

You may think of flooding or power outages when storms roll in. But each lightning strike also emits nitrogen oxides, gases more commonly linked to vehicle exhaust. For the first time, researchers ...

Scientists are working to understand the curious phenomena of red sprites, green ghosts and blue jets high above thunderstorms. Red spites, a type of transient luminous event or TLE, appear in the ...

An enormous, 515-mile-long flash of lightning that crossed at least three states has been named the longest in recorded history in the world. The 2017 “megaflash” stretched from eastern Texas to near ...