When we think of climate change, lightning may not immediately come to mind but it’s something we could see more of in the future. Remember back in 2020 when we had our highly unusual California – Bay ...

If you look at a map of lightning near the Port of Singapore, you’ll notice an odd streak of intense lightning activity right over the busiest shipping lane in the world. As it turns out, the ...

If you look at a map of lightning near the Port of Singapore, you’ll notice an odd streak of intense lightning activity right over the busiest shipping lane in the world. As it turns out, the ...

Adding to a growing literature on the subject, another study has forecast an increase in extreme weather due to climate change. In particular, the research struck upon a simple new model to predict ...

In the future, lightning-induced tree mortality could rise due to an increase in flash frequency. Lightning damage in forests is often hard to detect and has only been systematically studied in a few ...

April 5 (UPI) --Electrical storms are rare at high latitudes, but scientists expect lightning strikes in the Arctic to happen more frequently as the planet warms. In a new study, scientists analyzed ...

Most people avoid spending time in lightning-prone locales. But this month, scientists are heading to an area of Venezuela that sees more lightning strikes than anywhere else in the world, to test a ...

Last year was a lot of things, but it was not an active lightning year in the United States. Most areas had below normal lightning activity, intensity, and frequency. We reviewed Vaisala's annual ...