Summer is a busy time for lighting strikes, which kill about 20 people and injure many others across the United States each ...

Thunder and lightning are two of nature's most awe-inspiring yet terrifying phenomena. Have you ever wondered how a lightning ...

Monsoon season brings the chance of thunder and lightning to San Diego, with a particularly dangerous weather phenomenon.

If you count the number of seconds between the flash of lightning and the sound of thunder, and then divide by 5, you’ll get the distance in miles to the lightning. So 5 seconds is equal to 1 ...

Gurgaon: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued a \"yellow alert\" for the city, Faridabad, Rewari, and surrounding ...

After the lightning always comes the thunder, right? Sometimes, we aren't able to hear the clap of thunder after we see a ...

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.

The thunder travels at the speed of sound, about 1,000 feet per second. A mile is just over 5,000 feet long. It takes five seconds for thunder to travel one mile.

MIAMI - Trees begin to sway, the sky darkens and suddenly you hear it -- the distant sound of thunder. That's your cue that potential danger is on the way. In fact, it's likely within 10 miles of ...

I WAS interested in reading the recent correspondence in NATURE about the sound of lightning, for I also have once heard it. It was in East Griqualand one evening when, in the midst of a storm, I ...