Lightning is so common that most people stop noticing it, yet the physics packed into a single flash is genuinely extreme. In the fraction of a second that a bolt connects the sky to the ground, it ...

Lightning during a nighttime storm. Photo by Pixabay via Pexels. Representative image; not a photograph of the measured Catatumbo storms. The flash and the sound of a thunderstorm are two outputs of ...

A bolt of lightning lasts only a fraction of a second, yet in that instant it becomes one of the hottest phenomena that regularly occurs on the surface of the Earth. The narrow channel carved by a ...