Lightning Strikes Frequently Lightning is one of nature's most electrifying spectacles, and its frequency is nothing short of ...

IN a paper which has recently attracted a considerable amount of attention, Kapitza 1 has proposed a standing electromagnetic wave description of ball lightning. His paper presents a good ...

There’s also fork lightning which flows between a cloud and the ground. And even ball lightning. When lightning happens, it heats the air to around 10,000 °C. As the air heats so quickly it ...

Find a low spot or depression and crouch down as low as possible, but don't lie down on the ground. Lightning can move in and along the ground surface, and many victims are struck not by bolts but ...