Thunder and lightning are scary enough when you're on the ground, but when you're thousands of feet up in the air, it's on a ...

Lightning is so powerful that it heats the air around it to 50,000 ... watch out for is the approach of storm clouds. Lightning is only produced by cumulonimbus clouds, which have a dense and ...

The likely distribution of electric charge of a cumulonimbus cloud has been drawn onto this User-generated Content image of a storm taken ... a bolt of lightning is initiated. Air is an ...

Passengers have faced major delays in Spain due to a storm that swept through Majorca on Tuesday morning. Most arrivals at ...

This edition of Weather Tidbits is going to be discussing pyrocumulonimbus clouds. Pyrocumulonimbus clouds are thunderclouds that are created from intense heating of the Earth’s surface. The process ...

As a result, we know quite a bit about the phenomenon — how ice, snow, and rain circulating within a cumulonimbus cloud ... a clap of thunder. One thing that has eluded scientists, though, is exactly ...

Cumulonimbus clouds, or thunderclouds ... At the Omiya Bonsai Art Museum in Saitama city, air conditioners failed during a lightning storm on the night of Aug. 7. Lightning hit the circuit ...