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 ...

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 ...

Video captured by Deontrea Jones shows lightning flash and illuminate a cloud formation over the city. “This lightning did not come to play!” Jones wrote on X alongside the video. The NWS said the ...

Lightning has fascinated and excited humans for as long as they have watched the skies. Although meteorologists understand the cloud conditions necessary to produce it, lightning cannot be forecasted.

In general, lightning starts after opposing electrical charges—positive and negative—are separated in clouds, resulting in a discharge that people see as lightning. In their study, which took ...