Alabama's Lightning Season begins in late July and ends in early August, but lightning strikes year-round. Misconceptions spread about lightning, and the wrong information could be dangerous.

It can be sunny where you are, but lightning still strikes. NOAA's NSSL also states, " A bolt from the blue can strike ground at a spot with “blue sky” above it. So even a storm that is 6 ...

A blob of colors—red in the middle surrounded like an oil slick by orange, yellow, green, and blue—shows a ... will need a stationary storm that is producing lightning again and again, right ...

Right after you see lightning, start counting the seconds until you hear thunder. Let's use "D" for distance...So the distance you are from the storm is equal to S (seconds) divided by five.

A report was issued from the National Weather Service on Monday at 1:43 p.m. for strong thunderstorms until 2:15 p.m. for Northern Blue Mountains of Oregon.

Will Jones from Smithfield, North Carolina, sent me the above picture during Saturday evening's storms. Growing up, I always heard this called "heat lightning." It wasn't until I started studying ...