WE constantly find allusions in ancient classical authors, to lightning and thunder occurring in a clear sky. The former is often explained as referring to the phenomenon commonly known as ...
THIS communication records the observation of ball lightning in unusual circumstances. I was seated near the front of the passenger cabin of an all-metal airliner (Eastern Airlines Flight EA 539 ...
Despite hundreds more sightings since then, scientists have struggled to explain the exact nature of ball lightning, leading some to question whether it is real, an optical illusion, or even a ...
It is five times hotter than the sun and turns sand to glass in an instant It can shoot 80 kilometres up above storm clouds And it may even have provided the original spark that created life ...
It is a wakeup call to us by nature. "Lightning is of three types. The first is thundercloud or intra-cloud lightning. The second is cloud-to-cloud or Inter-cloud lightning and third is cloud-to ...
Lightning is a powerful and seemingly mysterious force of nature, capable of releasing huge amounts of energy over relatively short times and striking almost at random. Lightning obeys the laws of ...