Caused by an EMP, an ELVES event lasts for less than a thousandth of a second. This snap, from November 2025, shows the enormous phenomenon in one of the few shots ever captured from the ground.

Lightning flashes streak across the sky in the German countryside. One large flash is mostly horizontal, another one is vertical. Sometimes lightning bolts can stretch hundreds of miles horizontally.

The age-old maxim says lightning never strikes the same place twice. Florida would beg to disagree. The state is the lightning capital of the United States as measured in deaths by lightning, with ...

The geographic location of the case in this study. The background shows the fire scene, where the intense smoke indicates extremely fierce flames. Combined with the fire source identified by local ...

Picture this: You’re stuck in traffic on a summer afternoon, checking the weather app on your phone as dark storm clouds roll in. You might think about power outages or possible flooding, but you ...

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