IN NATURE, vol. xxvii. p. 576, a statement is made that the “opinion so long and generally entertained” that “sheet-lightning and the so-called summer or heat-lightning are nothing else than the ...

Low clouds filled the sky over Washington on Thursday night as thunderstorms moved over the District. The low clouds persisted during the storm, from start to finish, and obscured the lightning ...

The sky across Worcester and Malvern was illuminated by horizontal bolts of lightning yesterday (Sunday) evening. Residents across the county were greeted with thunder and lightning after the Met ...

Rebels on a lightning advance through Syria said they were nearing the capital Damascus on Saturday, although the Bashar al-Assad government denied the army had withdrawn from areas around the city.

Sheet lightning: Diffuse illumination on those clouds that surround the path of a lightning bolt; not a unique form of lightning, only a manifestation of ordinary lightning in the presence of ...

SOME people never see lightning; I have met one lady who cannot, and have heard of other instances. The question suggests itself, consequently, whether the duration of a flash of lightning is ...