LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Thunder is created by the acoustic shock wave from the extreme heat of a lightning flash. Lightning can reach temperatures of 54,000°F (30,000°C)—five times hotter than the ...

Thunderstorms often begin to develop early in the day when the sun heats the air near the ground and pockets of warmer air start to rise in the atmosphere. When these pockets of air reach a certain ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Lightning is one of the most powerful and dangerous natural phenomena on Earth. A giant spark of static electricity, lightning serves as a type of “neutralizer” for electric charges ...

Normally, as you go higher into the atmosphere the air gets cooler, but during a temperature inversion, warm air sits above cooler air near the ground. This shift in temperature plays a key role in ...

An MLive reader has a question about why the thunder earlier this week was so loud and lasted a long time. There are two valid reasons. Elizabeth emailed me asking, “A couple days ago the storms we ...

FARGO — Thunder is the sound made by lightning. The process of lightning zipping through the air causes a sudden heating of the air to a temperature estimated at 40,000 degrees Fahrenheit. This causes ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A few strange things occurred with our weather early Thursday morning and Wednesday afternoon. A few rounds of thunderstorms rolled through WNY, which is not out of the ordinary in ...