Volcanic lightning formation is very similar to the way thunderstorm lightning forms. As the volcanic material within the eruption cloud collides with itself, the collisions can lead to a ...

Whenever you hear about lightning striking sand or loose soil, think of fulgurites. These are rare, glassy tubes formed when a lightning bolt fuses grains of quartz and other minerals together in ...

Lightning is hotter than the surface of the sun and kills up to 20 people in the United States each year, but how exactly ...

How lightning is actually created inside a cloud is still the subject of active research. Professor Rutledge said that for a storm to become a thunderstorm ...

Every lightning strike begins as a silent exchange of charge — leaders reaching down, streamers rising up — until, in an ...

All it takes is a flash. Lightning strikes the ground, creating temperatures of more than 3,000 degrees. The sand around the lightning strike fuses together, and fulgurite is formed. Not every ...

Lightning is the discharge of electricity caused by an imbalance between the positive and negative charges that build up in a thundercloud. Most lightning flashes occur between or within clouds ...

WAVE 3 meteorologist Tawana Andrew breaks down what we know and what we don't about the climate and weather here in ...