The UK's Royal Meteorological Society has revealed the winners of this year’s Standard Chartered Weather Photographer of the Year competition. The total number of submissions received this year was ...

The Royal Meteorological Society has announced the winners of the Standard Chartered Weather Photographer of the Year contest. Wang Xin was outside Shanghai during an intense thunderstorm when he ...

Dancing sprites, heavenly landscapes, and apocalyptic-looking skies are some of the top picks as the Royal Meteorological ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Halloween is here and scientists at the Nation Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are claiming that elves and sprites are real. Halloween’s the time for all things ...

October is without a doubt the spookiest month of the year because of Halloween and because the last vestiges of warm weather are being chipped away slowly by chilly air that can send shivers down ...

Red lightning, also known as a "sprite", is an intriguing weather phenomenon associated with certain very intense thunderstorms. While an ordinary lightning flash extends downward from the clouds to ...

Sprites -- named after Puck, a nature sprite in English folklore -- are huge electrical discharges that occur in the mesosphere (50-100km above Earth), which are triggered by positive lightning ...

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