GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Summer evenings can often deliver storms seen firing in the distance with frequent flashing, but thunder absent. This phenomenon has often been dubbed “heat lightning” but ...

Scientists have shown that lightning-like bursts can be recreated in small blocks of solid materials in the lab.

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." Other WRAL Top Stories It wasn't until ...

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 ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — When it comes to the weather, no two days are the same and no two weather systems or storms are ever the same either. As we move into the warmer months though, we enter pop-up storm ...

Yet, that's exactly what occurs during a thunderstorm. For the first time, scientists from the University of Maryland were able to detect lightning and its impact on air quality using high-frequency ...