Astronaut photographs rare red lightning phenomenon from ISS Sprites like the ones Pettit captured on video occur much higher than regular lightning. Their name is an acronym, short for ...

Thunder and lightning. The phenomenon, known as thundersnow, occurs when a thunderstorm produces snow instead of rain. The weather event is so rare that Weather Channel meteorologist Jim Cantore ...

An astronaut captured an elusive glimpse of red lightning from space. NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick imaged the rare red sprite phenomenon from the International Space Station earlier in the year ...

The National Weather Service (NWS) describes it as a "rare weather phenomenon" on its website ... go and generating enough electric charge for lightning—and, by extension, thunder—to occur.

It is an electrical discharge that occurs above thunderclouds, between 40km and 80km above the ground. Read more at ...

This phenomenon forms ... Although rare, Northeast Wisconsin has experienced thundersnow before. The FOX 11 Storm Chaser captured lightning from thundersnow in 2019. A viewer, Lonna Einberger ...

SCOTS are bracing for thunderstorms this weekend but hayfever sufferers are in for a tough time as experts warn of a ...

Credit: Don Pettit/NASA NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured breathtaking video of a rare atmospheric phenomenon from his ... (TLE ) or upper atmospheric lightning." The video captures around ...

BUT, USUALLY OCRRCUING SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH OTHER LIGHTNING STRIKES WITHIN ... S SCIENC A photograph taken last week shows a rare "red sprites" phenomenon occurring above storms in Arkansas ...