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A storm chaser was treated to a mesmerizing light show near Salina, Kansas, on May 8.Steven Thompson, who traveled to Salina to chase storms, filmed a timelapse video that shows lightning bolts ...
A flood watch remained in effect for parts of central, south-central, and southeast Kansas from 6 am on Friday, March 12, until Sunday afternoon.“Periodic rounds of showers and thunderstorms ...
Not all lightning hits the ground; most of it stays within the clouds. When it does reach the ground, it travels at around 200,000 miles per hour. And for a brief moment, it heats the air around ...
Sympathetic lightning is the tendency of lightning to be loosely coordinated across long distances. Discharges can appear in clusters when viewed from space. [22] [23] [24] [clarification needed] Upward lightning or ground-to-cloud lightning is a lightning flash which originates from the top of a grounded object and propagates upward from this ...
The atmosphere is a dynamic system, and the local conditions of turbulence, uplift, and other parameters give rise to many types of clouds. Various types of cloud occur frequently enough to have been categorized. Furthermore, some atmospheric processes can make the clouds organize in distinct patterns such as wave clouds or actinoform clouds ...
Sprites or red sprites are large-scale electric discharges that occur in the mesosphere, high above thunderstorm clouds, or cumulonimbus, giving rise to a varied range of visual shapes flickering in the night sky. They are usually triggered by the discharges of positive lightning between an underlying thundercloud and the ground.
A storm that pummeled dozens of Midwest states with snow during the weekend also brought another weather phenomena, at least to Missouri: Thunder and lightning. The phenomenon, known as ...
The Mountaineers’ game against Kansas Saturday was suspended with 10:43 remaining in the fourth quarter due to lightning and inclement weather in the Morgantown, West Virginia area.