On June 28, 2025, in Hunt Valley, Maryland, USA, @davemchugh shared a video capturing a gloomy day with dark clouds forming ...

Thunder and lightning are summer staples, but they can happen all year round. Here's a quick science lesson on how thunder, lightning and storms form.

What causes thunder and lightning? 00:49. Thunderstorms are one of nature's most fascinating and dangerous occurrences. ... Lightning can occur between a cloud and the ground or also within a cloud.

Thundersnow is exactly what the name suggests – a snowy thunderstorm. But the winter version of a thunderstorm is far less frequent than the spring and summer thunderstorms most people are used to.

Believe it or not, scientists are still not 100% sure what creates lightning. The most logical explanation as of now has it all starting with ice crystals and turbulence! As clouds grow high in ...

LIGHTNING: Lightning is one of the first signs of a monsoon storm. It's incredibly hot. In fact, it's five times hotter than the surface of the sun, at an astounding 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

The higher frequencies are easily absorbed by everything around us, and thunder arrives to our ears at different times because of different lightning discharges in a single cloud or multiple clouds.