Articles for tag: AtmosphericScience, ElectricityInNature, lightning, SevereWeather

a bunch of lightning strikes over a field

When Lightning Strikes Twice: The Science Behind Rare Bolts

Suhail Ahmed

  On a hot summer night in the Great Plains, a storm rolled across the horizon, hurling down jagged forks of light. A rancher watched in disbelief as one towering oak tree on his land was hit not once, but twice in the same storm, erupting in sparks like something out of a disaster movie. ...