As the weather warms, people spend more time outdoors, going to barbecues, beaches and ballgames. But summer isn’t just the season of baseball and outdoor festivals – it’s also lightning season. Each ...

As particles rub together from wind friction in a thunderstorm, the charges separate and static electricity develops. The negative charges or electrons separate to the bottom of the thunderstorm, ...

An e-mail from Sherrard wonders how fast lightning is. Lightning is extremely fast and extremely hot. Lightning is electricity, and as you know from turning on a light switch, electricity acts fast.

If you look at a map of lightning near the Port of Singapore, you’ll notice an odd streak of intense lightning activity right over the busiest shipping lane in the world. As it turns out, the ...

An e-mail from a Sherrard reader wonders how fast lightning is. Lightning is extremely fast and extremely hot. Lightning is electricity, and as you know from turning on a light switch, electricity ...