Lightning is a staple of West Michigan weather, but many natives might not know how this common phenomenon is made.

A research team at Los Alamos National Laboratory recently found that the strength difference between two very high-frequency radio pulses in lightning is closely related to the altitude of the ...

Small, frequent lightning storms zip across Jupiter’s cloud tops. NASA’s Juno spacecraft spotted the flashes for the first time, scientists report August 5 in Nature. “It’s a very exotic thing that ...

As a late-summer monsoon spread across California in recent weeks, it delivered hundreds of thousands of lightning ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) -- With all thunderstorms comes lightning. Of the various types of lightning, one that meteorologists monitor closely is cloud-to-ground lightning. Here’s how it works ...

California was hit by thousands of lightning strikes from Tuesday to Thursday, including parts of the Bay Area that average ...

On August 6, 2025, in Beijing, China, @NorthWindLevel5Or6 shared a video of lightning bolts in the sky. In the video shows a ...