Ball Lightning Imagine seeing a glowing sphere floating through the sky during a thunderstorm. That's ball lightning, a mysterious and rare weather phenomenon that has puzzled scientists for years.

Typically, on top of their training, new hires will fly as a copilot for ... Unbeknownst to the pilots circling overhead, a fire tornado had formed nearby, brought to life by a confluence of ...

What will the new neighborhoods look like ... Firefighters could encounter fire tornadoes, a rare but dangerous phenomenon in which wildfires create their own weather. Fire whirl, fire devil ...

Fire whirls, often referred to as fire tornadoes ... The study introduced a new swirl number to better understand the onset of blue whirls, linking it to the pressure differences that occur ...

Ms. Smythe discovered that the safe containing ... Mark Abramson for The New York Times Walls of fire, whipped by tornado-speed winds, were racing through Pacific Palisades, Calif., ...

Nature is capable of the most mysterious, surreal, stunning, and powerful things. The only thing we can do as humans is to ...

Howerton confirmed to The Times that the area had become a focus of their inquiry, but it is unclear what investigators have discovered ... of a fire which began just after midnight on New ...

The remains of a 95-year-old grandmother who was unaccounted for were discovered at her destroyed home in Altadena after the devastating Eaton Fire ... gone except her blue Cadillac." ...

In just one short week since “Wicked” became available to watch (and singalong with) at home, the digital edition of the smash-hit musical (the highest-grossing Broadway adaptation in global box ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A beefed-up firefighting force was staged around Los Angeles to attack flare-ups or new blazes and anxious ... of flames or even cause fire tornadoes. On Monday, planes ...

The L.A. County Unified School District — the nation's second-largest after New York City's -- says ... spin faster and give that look of a tornado." Fire tornadoes only last for a few minutes ...