After searching in conditions that included heavy rain, thunder, and lightning, lifeguards found one of the boys while a Good Samaritan boater found the other two.

GOES-19 has taken over as NOAA’s primary geostationary eye in the Western Hemisphere, joining GOES‑18 to deliver ...

At 2:30 p.m. on April 18, Ocean Safety responded to a 911 call for three teenaged kayakers in distress off Kipapa Island in Kaneʻohe Bay. Ocean Safety says crews traversed ...

belched out by ships contributes to storm clouds and lightning along the heavily trafficked shipping lanes in the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea. Chris Wright at the University of Washington ...

In fact, Shao added, the strongest electric field ever detected inside storm clouds was 10 times weaker than what would be needed to spark lightning based on that theory. To solve the long ...

It’s clear that if a lightning storm catches us outside, the advice is that we must never take shelter under a tree. We should also be cautious around large bodies of water like the ocean ...

Storms over the Sierra Pass on Tuesday afternoon delivered more than 100 lightning strikes in just a few hours. The storms, including one near Truckee, stayed to the west and didn't reach Reno.