Positive lightning makes up less than 5% of strikes, but it can be up to 10 times more powerful.

That mega lightning strike, called a megaflash, started over Texas and stretched all the way to near Kansas City during a major thunderstorm in October 2017. The World Meteorological Organization says ...

Thunderstorms rolled through parts of the San Francisco Bay Area and California's Central Valley early Tuesday morning, leading to thousands of lightning strikes and sparking several fires. According ...

Lightning strikes are always a serious threat, no matter what season it is. For the last year, lightning strikes in the US have reached an 8-year-high, according to Vaisala Xweather. Xweather operates ...

What weather factors contribute to lightning-ignited wildfires (LIWs)? This is what a recent study published in Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters hopes to address as a team of scientists ...

The flash of lightning and roar of thunder can be quickly followed by the wheezing gasp of an asthma attack, a new study says. Thunderstorms appear to trigger sharp increases in asthma-related ER ...

Above normal temperatures will be felt across the Bay Area for several days this week, with the hot weather giving way to increasing chances of thunderstorms and the possibility of lightning-sparked ...

, Oct. 12 -- Bangladesh experiences a diverse kind of natural disaster almost every year. Thunderstorm lightning is one of the most common and deadly hazards among them. Every year, many people and ...

THE ENERGY AS IT GETS DARKER. SO THAT’S THE FIRST STEP. OKAY, GOOD. STILL THERE’S SOME HEAVY RAIN MOVING TOWARDS THE AREA RIGHT NOW. AND SO WITHIN THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS THESE SHOULD MOVE THROUGH ...

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