Ahead of us clouds are boiling up like cauliflower ... over the mountains as if posed for a portrait, sparking lightning obediently above a distant ridge. Standing in the foreground on the ...

Blue 'jets' of lightning shooting upwards from thunderclouds ... Because blue jets form above the cloud layer, they are very difficult to see — and study — from down on the surface of the ...

Quite a few areas saw a light show Wednesday night with freezing rain falling. How did this occur? Meteorologist Lance Huffman breaks it down.

Wildfires raging across the US and Canada recently were so huge they even spread to the sky, creating clouds that only appear above superhot heat sources. So-called ‘fire clouds’ are not ...

The heat warms the air above the fire ... and occasionally even tornadoes. Lightning strikes from the storm can spark new wildfires, increasing the danger. These clouds are fascinating but ...

But by the time the 15-person team rendezvoused Monday afternoon at Camp Muir, a cluster of stone huts and outhouses two miles above sea level ... I shivered and cringed as lightning flashed through ...

New images captured by NASA's Curiosity rover show colorful clouds in the sky over Mars. The images were captured by the rover's Mastcam, which NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory compared to the rover's ...

If the charge builds up enough, it flows as a massive electrical current to the ground or to another cloud. This is like a shock or a really big spark and is what we call lightning. There are lots ...