ABILENE, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) – During a thunderstorm, have you ever heard a loud clap of thunder that shook the entire house and maybe even gave you a little scare? These booming sounds are caused by ...

No, there wasn't an earthquake -- but powerful thunderstorms with heavy rain and hail across the Chicago area may have made things sound and feel like there was. "Was anyone else just woken up by some ...

Thunderstorms can be quite loud, but there are conditions in which the rumbles of thunder can be boosted. Obviously, a thunderstorm is going to be louder the closer it gets to you. However, the sound ...

Thunder is created when air molecules rapidly expand, in this case from lightning. Did you know? A single lightning bolt heats the surrounding air to roughly 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit. That's five ...

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 ...

Spectacular lightning lit up the night sky as thunderstorms brought heavy rain and flash flooding to Los Angeles on Thursday ...

(WLUK) -- If you were jolted awake early Wednesday morning as a line of storms rolled through Green Bay and the Fox Valley, you probably weren't alone. And there's a good reason why that thunder might ...

If you thought the thunder last night was a lot louder than normal, you'd be right. A temperature inversion aloft in the sky set up across Central New York, which in turn amplified the thunderous ...

Footage captured by X user @unstableair shows several lightning strikes and loud cracks of thunder over the Sherman Oaks ...

Loud thunder and bright flashes of lightning have struck the city of Plymouth on Halloween this evening (Friday, October 31). Residents said there were several "big flashes of light" and loud thunder ...

A lightning bolt strikes the ocean near a lifeguard tower at Bolsa Chica State Beach in 2021. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) Coastal Southern California, which rarely sees lightning, witnessed ...