Lightning can also sometimes flash from the ground to the cloud when electrical charges build up at the surface and connect ...

Even on quiet nights out for dinner with my wife, weather geekdom can find its way to the surface. Friday was one of those evenings. The Italian restaurant was packed so I dropped my wife off to get ...

Cumulonimbus clouds are also known as thunderstorm clouds. High winds, usually from the jet stream, can flatten the top of the cloud into an anvil-like shape. The anvil usually points in the direction ...

Singapore logs one of the highest lightning strike rates in the world.On July 5, a man died after he was struck by lightning ...

Lightning has captured people's fascination for millennia. It's embedded in mythology, religion and popular culture. Think of Thor in Norse mythology or Indra in Hinduism. In Australia, lightning is ...