A rare phenomenon was caught on camera Wednesday morning by a photographer in Puerto Rico during a thunderstorm. Known as a gigantic jet, the phenomenon is a Transient Luminous Event (TLE) and appears ...

Several minutes before schedule, a gust blew the blanket off Wednesday’s big reveal at East Eighth Avenue and Center Street. And there, by the perimeter of Bowling Green Municipal Utilities, it stood: ...

In a flash, a single lightning bolt lit up the sky across three states in the Great Plains. On Thursday, after careful reexamination of the bolt’s path and storm data, the World Meteorological ...

An enormous, 515-mile-long flash of lightning that crossed at least three states has been named the longest in recorded history in the world. The 2017 “megaflash” stretched from eastern Texas to near ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Talk about a bolt from the blue. Scientists July 31 announced the discovery of the world's longest lightning flash ever detected – ...

That’s because thunder is the sound caused by lightning (it’s part of why dogs fear thunder). A charged, superheated lightning bolt creates a “resonating tube” as it travels. The air in the tube can ...