Pyrocumulonimbus clouds form under specific conditions when intense heat from a fire causes air to rise rapidly within the smoke plume. This process involves: Heat Generation: The flames produce ...

Bushfires are strongly driven by weather: hot, dry and windy conditions can combine to create the perfect environment for ...

Pyrocumulonimbus clouds (pyroCb), also known as fire generated thunderstorms, are a dangerous fire behaviour that occurs ...

AEM released their 2025 U.S lightning report which revealed that Oklahoma has surpassed Florida to become the nation’s ...

Highlights from the Antidotum Airshow Leszno 2021 as the Flying Bulls displayed their P-38 Lightning and P-51 Mustang ...

Thundersnow is possible, but it is pretty rare. The reason has to do with the conditions needed for lightning to form in a ...

Astronauts aboard the ISS have captured rare, invisible lightning phenomena hidden above Earth’s storms, revealing explosive ...

WASHINGTON, 29th July, 2025 (WAM) -- A significant breakthrough by Pennsylvania State University researchers, led by Victor Pasko, has provided the first quantitative explanation for precisely how ...

We know Earth formed roughly 4.54 billion years ago and that the first single cell lifeforms were present roughly 1 billion years after that. What we don’t know is what triggered the process that ...

A stunning video of spider-web lightning striking a volcano in Guatemala in what almost appears to be a spectacular firework display has gone viral online. The impressive display of lightning struck ...

Some social media users are sharing a photo they claim shows a fulgurite – a glass structure that can be created when lightning strikes sand or rock. The photo shows an elaborate sand structure on a ...

MACON, Ga. — It all starts with a cumulonimbus cloud... or a tall storm cloud. Storm clouds have an updraft, a strong upward wind that brings water higher into the atmosphere. This water eventually ...