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There are 10 main types of clouds. There's the Cumulus cloud, otherwise know as the Simpsons' cloud. "The cartoon cloud that forms on a sunny day. The fair weather cloud. It's like the generic one, ...

Scientists have proposed a number of hypotheses to explain the correlation between lightning and pollution, all of which revolve around the crux of electrifying a cloud: collisions between ...

A line of thunderstorms moved across eastern Texas on Monday, December 16, with forks of lightning illuminating the night sky. Videos from Chad Casey show a shelf cloud and lightning strikes.

Lightning is an electrical discharge between charged particles in a cloud and the ground. Objects can be classified as electrical conductors or insulators, but this depends on the electrical ...

A tornado warning was issued in several counties, and storms filled the sky with lightning and dark cloud formations. The NWS confirmed Tuesday night that a tornado was located east of Sneedville ...

Harvard researchers demonstrate how cloud-to-ground lightning strikes could have created the building blocks for life in the young Earth. One of the most fundamental questions in science is how ...

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Rajeevan Erikkulam, a meteorologist with the Kerala State Disaster Management Authority (KSDMA), said the frequency of lightning increases in the break period during the monsoon ...