While places like Texas might have more lightning strikes each year ... cools and condenses into clouds, which are made up of water, ice and water/ice pellets. And this is where it gets tricky.

Languages: English. Scientists have revealed a hidden trigger of lightning that could resolve a centuries-old weather mystery. Earth is struck by some 44 bolts of lightning each second ...

These cosmic rays produce secondary, high-energy electrons and positrons in the atmosphere that further ionized the air and created pathways in thunderclouds, allowing lightning to follow and ...