Thunder and lightning are much more common in warm-season storms because of convection, the upward motion of air that helps produce thunderstorms. It's fairly rare to have convection within a ...

Here's what experts say Thunder and lightning are much more common in warm, summer months because of convection, the upward motion of air that helps produce thunderstorms. Because convection is ...

NASA's Aqua satellite provided an infrared look at Tropical Storm Conson's thunderstorm cloud-top temperatures on July 14 at 1747 UTC (1:47 p.m. EDT) and found 2 large areas of strong convection ...

Vic experienced the rare combination of extreme heat and severe thunderstorms, which sparked several new fires across the ...

Often this convection reaches a couple of kilometers ... The heat so transferred (whether by thunderstorms or other cumulus clouds) is generally greater where solar heating is stronger, that ...

Firefighters are racing to contain a fast-growing brush fire in San Diego County, while other blazes continue to burn ...

Thunder and lightning are much more common in warm-season storms because of convection, the upward motion of air that helps produce thunderstorms. It's fairly rare to have convection within a winter ...