Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a massive storm swept through central Alberta in early July, a couple stood on their porch watching bolts of lightning play ...

For centuries, people caught in violent thunderstorms have reported seeing something that ordinary lightning cannot account for: a glowing sphere, often about the size of a grapefruit, that floats ...

Researchers have discovered what appears to be the earliest known account of a rare weather phenomenon called ball lightning in England. Scientists at Amherst College and Aalto University have created ...

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