The dance of electrical charges high above us is more complex than most people realize. While we typically think of lightning as bright bolts striking the ground, the vast majority of lightning ...

Lightning strikes happen when electricity builds up inside storm clouds and between the clouds and the ground. Inside a thunderstorm, tiny ice particles and small hailstones bump into each other as ...

(KRON) — A swarm of lightning strikes were recorded around the Bay Area in the past 24 hours. U.S. Forest Service spokesperson Adrienne Freeman told KRON4 that there were approximately 88 ...

Lightning is an essential part of nature—balancing Earth’s electrical charge by transferring negative energy back to the ground. But it can also be fatal. That’s especially true in Florida, where ...

Have you ever shuffled through your living room carpet in socks and touched a doorknob to be met with a pop! and a shock? That’s what’s happening in the clouds during a thunderstorm. Our eyes deceive ...

In Britain, lightning causes an average of two deaths a year; in South Africa, it can be well over 200. Near Pretoria over ...

The Aug. 12 strike blew concrete out of the ground near the Lake Michigan Filtration Plant's generator building, damaging ...

Editor’s note: “Behind the News” is the product of Sun staff assisted by the Sun’s AI lab, which includes a variety of tools such as Anthropic’s Claude, Perplexity AI, Google Gemini and ChatGPT. Two ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. More than 2,000 lightning strikes illuminated Southern California skies in 48 hours, mostly occurring over the ...