Will Jones from Smithfield, North Carolina sent me the above picture during Saturday evening's storms. Growing up, I always heard this called"heat lightning." It wasn't until I started studying ...
If you’ve ever been startled by a bolt of lightning without the roar of thunder or accompanying thunderstorm, you’ve probably had someone explain to you that it was just “heat” lightning. The term is ...
On a cold, thin-aired world where sound barely carries, a NASA rover has picked up something that should not be possible: the crackle of lightning on Mars. Instead of the deep, rolling thunder ...