Shelf clouds are attached to the storm’s base (unlike roll clouds, which float freely on their own). They often look like giant horizontal wedges, smooth in front and messy underneath.

The strike occurred just just moments after the Louisiana mother stopped to photograph ominous clouds overhead.

Crack! Boom! We’re entering the daily summer thunderstorm season in Florida. The clouds roll in and, with them, you sometimes see lightning in the distance. Then you hear thunder. With 50 deaths ...

CC lightning is caused by a difference in charges between separate clouds. The most well-known form of lightning CG, occurs when there are opposite charges between a cloud and the ground.

Drier holiday weekend in Triad, eyes on possible coastal storm which could bring showers to beach forecast ...

‘I’m hurting, but I’m here’: Baton Rouge mother survives lightning strike A Baton Rouge Woman is alive and doing as well as she can be after being struck by lightning not even one week ago.

As more stormy weather powered into Maryland on Tuesday, residents in Baltimore and Harford counties are still cleaning up ...

As scary as all of this may sound, you likely have nothing to worry about when it comes to summer lightning. According to the CDC, there are roughly 40 million lightning strikes in the United ...

Severe thunderstorms popped up in parts of Alberta Wednesday afternoon, prompting tornado watches. Storms capable of ...

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