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 ...

Double rainbow? Old news. It’s all about rainbow lightning these days. Early Monday evening, some Phoenix residents were lucky enough to catch two weather phenomena at once. A monsoon rainstorm ended ...

In a typical summertime thunderstorm, warm, moist air rises rapidly into the atmosphere, where it hardens into ice crystals, ...

A photographer Wednesday morning caught a rare phenomenon on video during thunderstorms in Puerto Rico. The phenomenon, known as a gigantic jet, is a Transient Luminous Event (TLE) and looks like ...

Engineers across many disciplines are aware of and concerned with lightning—and for good reasons. A lightning strike can cause significant structural damage, house and forest fires, and severe ...

More than 230 million people across the United States are at risk this weekend of impacts from a major winter storm or the bitter cold, according to the National Weather Service. Disruptive snowfall ...

"Thundersnow can be found where there is relatively strong instability and abundant moisture above the surface," says the ...