Texas and Florida were the states with the most people killed by lightning strikes between 2006 and 2021, according to the ...

The hauntingly beautiful bursts are called gigantic jets, an uncommon form of lightning ... are similar to red sprites, in that both are electrical discharges that rise from clouds, shooting ...

Unlike standard lightning that bolts from clouds down to the ground, sprites leap upward from storm tops, glowing red as they interact with nitrogen in the thin upper atmosphere. Most last mere ...

Massive Outbreak of Red Sprites in South Asia Observed ... the sprites were triggered by high-peak current positive cloud-to-ground lightning strikes within a massive mesoscale convective system.

These were electrical discharges that produced vivid red flashes high above thunderstorms ... by a “high-peak current” positive cloud-to-ground lightning strikes within a massive convective ...

A strange “red lightning” phenomenon photographed ... were triggered by a “high-peak current” positive cloud-to-ground lightning strikes within a massive convective system spanning a ...

A strange “red lightning” phenomenon photographed from near a lake site in the southern Tibetan plateau in 2022 was driven by thunderstorms over the Himalayan region, scientists discover in a new ...