It’s summer, and he’s driving a big, black Denali pickup pockmarked ... by deploying the Kahuna on lightning triggered by firing rockets into storm clouds. But Samaras is dismissive of ...

The towering cumulonimbus cloud darkens the sky to a piercing black. A cloud of dust trails ... "Soon it began to rain as flashes of lightning filled the valley,” photographer Eric Meola wrote ...

So-called ‘fire clouds’ are not literally made of flames, but as thunder clouds they have the potential to spit out lightning and ... ‘significant amounts of black carbon to the stratosphere ...