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 ...