For as long as people have watched storms roll across the sky, lightning has inspired awe and fear. You can see the flash and ...

A massive thunderstorm turns the sky dark over a field in Sweden. Thunderstorms can inspire the entire range of human emotion with their vivid displays of nature's fury. Storms are used to set an ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Ever spot a rainbow on top of a thundercloud? Some of our First Coast News Weather Watchers did on Wednesday afternoon in the Jacksonville area. The technical term for this is an ...

With Michigan's changeable weather, residents get to see a lot of different cloud formations — fluffy cumulus, wispy cirrus and dark, threatening cumulonimbus — and recognizing what weather each type ...

Sprites “are transient luminous events” that “are triggered by intense electrical activity in the thunderstorms,” astronaut Nichole Ayers said Nichole Ayers/Instagram; SpaceX NASA astronaut Nichole ...

A thunderstorm with cloud to ground lightning rages during the day in China on July 21, 2025. CREDIT: Photo by Liu Wei/Xinhua via Getty Images. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs ...

More severe weather is expected to hit North Carolina and the Piedmont Triad over the third weekend in July. There is plenty of humid July air to fuel storms. Our afternoon storm chances have been ...