Steve Cummer News Today

Blizzards produce one amongst earth's finest intense and interesting influences: gigantic streaks of illumination that divide the heavens, shooting enormous quantities of charge into the external environment and shattering down the earth once it hits it.

One of the most powerful and fascinating forces of nature is born of storms: great cracks of light that part the sky, flicking vast amounts of electricity into the surrounding atmosphere, cracking into the ground whenever it reaches it.

A multi-organizational research team put together data from their various instruments to study the historic lightning jet that occurred over Oklahoma.

A detailed 3D study of a massive electrical discharge that rose 50 miles into space above an Oklahoma thunderstorm has provided new information about an elusive atmospheric phenomenon known as gigantic jets. The Oklahoma discharge was the most...

These are some of the most mysterious weather phenomena on Earth.