A single lightning bolt heats the air around it to roughly 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit in a fraction of a second, a temperature ...

Lightning struck the ground at a Greater Cincinnati golf course, leaving behind a bizarre, web-like pattern. An employee at Ivy Hills Country Club in Newtown captured a video of the green last week, ...

Fractal burning, also known as Lichtenberg wood burning, uses high voltage electricity to create branching lightning like patterns. The electrical discharge travels through dampened wood, leaving ...

A 50 percent increase in the number of lightning strikes within the United States can be expected by 2100 if temperatures continue to rise due to greenhouse gas emissions, a new study claims.

Data on lightning patterns in the Amazon show how clouds are affected by particulate matter emitted by the fires used for slash-and-burn foresting practices. These findings could be used by climate ...

Lightning can light up the sky in a bright flash and take on a variety of shapes, but if you were to draw it, you'd almost certainly scratch out a zigzag. But what gives thunderbolts this branch-like ...

KCRA 3 NEWS. LISA: YOU MAY HAVE BEEN NOTICING SOME HAZE-YEAR, SMOKE-YEAR SKIES OVER THE VALLEY, THAT SMOKE IS DRIFTING IN FROM A FIRE THAT IS BURNING IN THE NORTHERN COAST OF CALIFORNIA. IT'S CALLED ...

New research has shown climate change could alter lightning patterns across Europe. This could lead to more lightning over mountains and in Northern Europe and less lightning over central Europe. The ...

A chart showing lightning distribution has been developed using color variations to show the average annual number of lightning flashes per square kilometer based on space-based optical sensor data ...

ATLANTA — Lightning: It's fast, it's ferocious, and it's a common reality of summertime here in the south. In north Georgia, there is a nearly daily pattern of pop-up storms throughout the warmest ...

During a series of strong storms that moved through Lexington on Friday night, lightning struck a flag in Lakeside Golf Course off Richmond Road. The strike left an intricate pattern on the grass and ...

A monsoonal weather pattern over Southern California resulted lightning, thunder and scattered showers across San Diego County on Saturday night and Sunday morning. “Widely scattered T-storms are ...