ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — With all thunderstorms comes lightning. Of the various types of lightning, one that meteorologists monitor closely is cloud-to-ground lightning. Here’s how it works: ...

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It's one of nature's most striking regular phenomena, but you may not know that lightning can appear in many different forms. Intracloud lightning is contained within one cloud jumping between ...

As the weather warms, people spend more time outdoors, going to barbecues, beaches and ballgames. But summer isn’t just the season of baseball and outdoor festivals – it’s also lightning season. Each ...

The age-old maxim says lightning never strikes the same place twice. Florida would beg to disagree. The state is the ...

Cloud, by New Zealand-based designer Richard Clarkson, is an interactive lamp designed to mimic a thundercloud. It brings the outside inside, providing an audiovisual show that looks and sounds like ...

Lightning is fascinating to watch but also extremely dangerous. In the United States, there are about 25 million lightning flashes every year. Each of those 25 million flashes is a potential killer.

A lightning strike in Dublin took out a power transformer. In and of itself, that isn’t all that unusual or noteworthy, but this particular lightning strike also impacted the backup power systems at ...

Amazon Web Services's European cloud suffered an outage over the weekend after lightning struck a transformer at one of its power suppliers. The outage, which Amazon Web Services (AWS) acknowledged on ...