Lightning is a staple of West Michigan weather, but many natives might not know how this common phenomenon is made.

Most of the time, when lightning hits something, we just see what it does to power lines, or maybe a building or other structure, or maybe a tree in the forest. But what's created when a bolt hits the ...

Nowhere is this more true than in the study of electricity in the wild; namely, lightning. Primitive humans must have been terrified by lightning, so much so that it is built into many religions.

Mysterious flashes of light seen in swamps and bogs could be caused by burning methane or other gases, ignited by sparks that ...

As temperatures climb and thunderstorms pop up across the area, many of you are asking us if we see heat lightning or telling us you have seen heat lightning. Here's the problem: there's no such thing ...

Videos of a purple orb of lightning at various locations here surfaced on social media last week. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Initially, the weather service anticipated the presence of dry lightning in the region. That weather phenomenon occurs when ...

A system of unstable air that created an overnight lightning show with thousands of strikes from the Bay Area to the Central Valley steered course toward the Sierra Nevada by Tuesday afternoon, making ...