Thunder and lightning are much more common in warm, summer months because of convection, the upward motion of air that helps ...

Winter is well underway in the Great Lakes region following a multiday lake effect snow event that dumped several feet of snow in New York, northwestern Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio.

Still, it would be an extraordinarily rare phenomenon ... in fact, attract lightning on occasion and so were covered during storms. Today, people across South Africa continue to undertake the ...