A rare and extraordinary atmospheric phenomenon has been documented above the Himalayas, where over 100 red sprite lightning ...

Studying these phenomena is crucial to scientists in understanding the atmosphere and air mass circulation ... Lee waves, a special type of gravity clouds, can build up on the downwind side ...

An atmospheric phenomenon called a Pineapple Express is expected to bring heavy rains and snowfall to California and the Northwest this week. What is a Pineapple Express? It's a type of ...

These sprites are strange atmospheric phenomena caused by powerful storms ... "Red sprites are one type of visible manifestation of electrical discharges that occur at altitudes of 35-50 miles ...

Matthew Dominick The ISS astronauts typically take these types of photographs from ... scientists to send in their photos of the atmospheric phenomenon to Spritacular, a crowdsourced database ...

more than a dozen other types of atmospheric vortexes exist-each with their own unique origins and behaviors. Scientists continue to study these phenomena, pushing the boundaries of what we ...

Matthias Süßen via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 While astronomy and clouds don’t usually mix, a rare type of atmospheric phenomenon, called noctilucent or night-shining clouds ...

It is the first time this type of atmospheric disturbance has been created ... an ionospheric hole has been created by a "catastrophic phenomena" such as a human-made explosion, he added.

If eastern atmospheric rivers are generally juicier, why aren’t historic flooding events happening constantly? It has to do with the way each type wrings moisture out of the atmosphere.