Superbolts are more likely to strike the closer a storm cloud's electrical charging zone is to the land or ocean's surface, a new study finds. These conditions are responsible for superbolt ...

A new type of thunderstorm, responsible for the most intense lightning ever observed, has been identified by analysing satellite observations. Eighty per cent of lightning occurs over land, where ...

Hebrew U. Researchers Discover Why There Are Fewer Lightning Storms Over Oceans. By. Jewish Press News Desk - 11 Av 5782 – August 8, 2022. 0. Share on Facebook. Tweet on Twitter ...

On Monday at 1:44 p.m. the National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm warning in effect until 2:30 p.m. for ...

Larger, coarse sea spray reduces the amount of lightning by as much as 90%, whereas smaller aerosols increase lightning. The size of particle also affects rainfall.

When marine scientist Mustafa Asfur made a tiny storm in a box, he stumbled on a possible solution to a long-standing mystery: why bolts of lightning are brighter over the ocean than they are over ...

LOS ANGELES – Beaches from Redondo to Zuma were closed by lifeguards today, when lightning flashed and unusual summer clouds dropped scattered heavy rain, a gift from a dying Mexican hurricane.

For its size, the state usually gets far fewer lightning strikes than the national average, though that hasn’t been quite as true in the recent storms. Skip to content Skip to site index U.S.

Donut-shaped rings of lightning expanded with the umbrella cloud and were as large as 174 miles in diameter. Similar “lightning holes” have been observed in thunderstorms, but never on such a large ...

A sharp reduction in the amount of sulfur pollution emitted by ships has reduced storm clouds and lightning in two of the world’s busiest international shipping lanes 1.. Previous research has ...

Lightning can also travel within an ash plume or between clouds. During the Tonga eruption, around 56% of the lightning struck the surface of the land or ocean.

Patrick Dispoto, 59, had just left the J Street Beach at Seaside Park in Ocean County with his girlfriend, Ruth Fussell, at around 7 p.m. when he noticed the ominous clouds fastly approaching ...