Lightning has fascinated and excited humans for as long as they have watched the skies. Although meteorologists understand the cloud conditions ... lower parts of the storm. As the differences ...

Thunder and lightning are ... on top of warm air, plus moist air closer to the ground. When there's strong enough convection, along with plenty of moisture, a winter storm can produce thundersnow.

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- A winter storm system arrived in the Pittsburgh area and brought a combination of rain and ice with thunder and lightning to the region. Yes, as many of you awake right now ...

The heavy rain, bright flashes of lightning, and the crashing and ... Thunderstorms start in clouds. Inside a storm cloud, bits of ice move up and down and bump into each other.

The Irish lightning strike caused downtime ... While neither Amazon's nor Microsoft's U.S.-based cloud services were impacted by the storm and resulting power failures, Dublin, where the clouds ...

The more violently wind shear destabilises a storm system, the more lightning is unleashed, as differences between positively and negatively charged regions of a cloud grow more dramatic.