AskarAlsalimi shared a video from Al-Rass, Saudi Arabia, showing massive clouds of dust resembling a sandstorm. The video, ...

Observations from high-flying aircraft revealed that thunderclouds act as natural particle accelerators, emitting energetic ...

Japan’s Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) has successfully developed and tested the world’s first drone-based ...

The development of lightning-resistant structures for drones, enables them to withstand direct strikes without malfunctioning ...

Thunderclouds—and the plane-racking turbulence that goes on inside them—are a constant menace to a pilot. He cannot always tell whether the cloud ahead is dangerous or not. Last week both the ...

This edition of Weather Tidbits is going to be discussing pyrocumulonimbus clouds. Pyrocumulonimbus clouds are thunderclouds that are created from intense heating of the Earth’s surface. The process ...

Forget giant lightning bolts—new research shows tiny sparks from crashing water droplets may have created life’s building ...

Thunderclouds, Van De Graaff generators. Elastic potential or strain energy The energy stored when an object is stretched or squashed. Drawn catapults, compressed springs, inflated balloons.

You need summer thermals, and you need a violent thunderstorm. Because of the height of thunderclouds some of the water droplets inside them freeze. But the powerful updrafts created by the warm ...