According to Xweather's Annual Lightning Report, there were 252 million lightning strikes in the U.S. in 2025, an eight-year ...

Thunderstorms belong to a non-exhaustive list of surprisingly mundane things that we know surprisingly little about. Last ...

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 ...

Stunning footage captured a lightning strike at the World Trade Center overnight — a rare weather event known as “thundersnow” — as a blizzard brought as much as 20 inches of snow to NYC. Multiple ...

It starts with a flash that slices through the sky. Moments later, thunder follows with a deafening rumble. You are told to stay indoors, unplug your phone, or avoid touching anything metallic. Some ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An intense thunderstorm system moved into Southern California from northern Mexico on Tuesday morning, Sept. 2, bringing scattered ...

People from across the Central Coast reported hearing and seeing Tuesday night's wild thunderstorm. "There was a loud boom, boom, boom, multiple bangs. Like real loud," said Shane Hitchcock, a San ...

Coronae glow on the tips of spruce needles, induced by charged metal plates in a laboratory. (William Brune) For the first time, meteorologists have glimpsed the tiny bursts of ultraviolet light ...

On October 18, 2025, in Shanghai, China, @DAZstudio shared a video of a powerful lightning strike during a nighttime thunderstorm. In the video, heavy rain pours over the city as thunder echoes ...

An intense thunderstorm system moved into Southern California from northern Mexico on Tuesday morning, Sept. 2, bringing scattered rain and the potential for more storms throughout the day. The ...