People may be frustrated by the lack of detail when weather forecasters say, "There will be thunderstorms popping up, but we ...

As I’ve mentioned in previous articles, there are over 40,000 thunderstorms forming every day across the globe. That’s nearly 1,700 per hour. For an entire year, it’s estimated that our planet will ...

ACCAS clouds, which are taller than they are wide and resemble turrets, are a sign of increasing moisture and instability in ...

People may be frustrated by the lack of detail when weather forecasters say “there will be thunderstorms popping up, but we don’t know where”. Now a key finding in a study by the UK Centre for Ecology ...

Some thunderstorms suddenly grow very strong, while others simply fizzle out. Predicting where this will happen has long been extremely difficult. Now researchers present a physical explanation for ...

Ultraviolet cameras captured faint electrical flashes from leaves and branches as storm charges built up in the atmosphere.

In the summer of 2024, the researchers hit the road, chasing storms from Florida to Pennsylvania. Finally, they got lucky: While camped out during a thunderstorm in Pembroke, North Carolina, they ...

In A Nutshell Penn State scientists captured the first direct evidence of trees producing faint electrical glows, called coronae, during live thunderstorms. The discharges hop erratically from leaf to ...