Thunder is the acoustic shock wave from the extreme heat of a lightning flash. The latest edition of Science Behind the ...

After the lightning always comes the thunder, right? Sometimes, we aren't able to hear the clap of thunder after we see a ...

With all thunderstorms comes lightning. Of the various types of lightning, one that meteorologists monitor closely is cloud-to-ground lightning. Here’s how it works: as a thunderstorm moves through an ...

Thunder and lightning are nothing new around the ballpark. In fact, in some parts of the country, summer thunderstorms are ...

Lightning strikes the U.S. 25 million times a year. Lightning fatalities are more frequent in July. When thunder threatens ...