Japanese researchers captured rare gamma-ray flash from lightning collision using advanced multi-sensor detection system.

SCRANTON, Penn., July 7.—John Regala was instantly killed, and three other men severely shocked by a bolt of lightning that struck the Murray coal breaker at Dunmore, near here, last night.

MANY years ago I published a discussion of the origins of lightning discharges 1 which affirmed that a discharge would be expected to begin at a place of maximum electric force (not potential ...

About 242 million lightning flashes were recorded during 2023 in the U.S., according to a recent report by Vaisala Xweather, which tracks each stroke of lightning. That's the most in at least the ...

The discharge in the laboratory is very similar to the lightning stroke in Nature. The sound produced, although the arc is only a few feet long, is uncomfortable and often painful to the ear.

But in 2022, Vaisala’s National Lightning Detection Network found more than 1,100 lightning strokes in Buffalo, New York, during a devastating lake-effect snowstorm that dumped more than 30 ...

But that wasn't the only thing the ferocious display had in store: Hundreds of volcanic lightning strokes crackled overhead, spreading their spidery tendrils across darkened skies. Now ...

There are, however, some other characteristic effects produced upon the surface of the body by lightning stroke which are worthy of attention. Dr. Eichardson, the conductor of the experiments ...

In fact, the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area alone had more than 120,000 lightning strokes (not a typo, see below) in 2023. The maps were created by Chris Vagasky, a meteorologist from the University ...

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