Have you ever wondered what’s going on high above your head when the sky turns dark and a storm rolls in? Imagine millions of tiny ... Read more The post How Hailstones Grow Inside Thunderclouds ...

During monsoon season, mornings tend to be clear and warm, but by late afternoon plumes of dark thunderclouds begin to build. As the storms move over the land, they drop their precious resource in ...

Thunderclouds, on top of heaving with rain and crackling with arcs of electricity, are also brimming with gamma rays. ... To pull off the feat of capturing dark lightning in a bottle, ...

Stock image of a very dark cloud over a city. Istanbul was thrust into darkness on Tuesday as a heavy cloud rolled over the city, nearly blocking out the sun entirely for around 5 minutes.

When dark thunderclouds build behind Dzilh Yez (Hudson Bay Mountain) in Smithers, B.C., local weather stations capture essential data.

The airplane is capable of flying at about 60,000 feet, an ideal altitude for flying in the proximity of thunderclouds. While airborne, the plane was fitted with instruments mounted on the ...

A NASA ER-2 aircraft flies a mission for ALOFT mission to study gamma-rays in thunderclouds. (Image credit: NASA/Carla Thomas) Researchers from the University of Bergen in Norway, the U.S. Naval ...

Over the course of their experiment, they fired laser pulses for nearly 6 1/2 hours at thunderclouds, while the tower was hit 16 times by lightning. Out of the 16 lightning strikes, ...