There's a place on Earth where lightning flashes almost every night—until, one day, it stopped. What causes the Catatumbo ...

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.

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 ...