Worldwide lightning strikes for the six month...  ...e lightning distribution is available at the Accu- Weather link. Link, via.

Imagine being hit in the head by a heavy object falling at around 100 miles per hour. Hailstones kill, and sometimes they kill many people at a time. In 1942 a British forest guard in Roopkund, India made an alarming di...

Weather has been available on Google Earth for several ye...  ...latest version has the capacity to show real-time weather information. To see it, you must first enable th...

New York City is suffering from a heat wave. Temperatures soared to 103 degrees in Central Park last Tuesday. Yes, that's hot, but on July 9th, 1936, back when very few people had access to air conditioning, Central Park...

There is a positive correlation between the sale o...  ...ween the sale of miniskirts and subsequent warmer weather : The rises and falls in the length of skirts a...  ...are said to be a good way of forecasting what the weather will be like three days in advance, based on rese...  ...e website becomes shorte...

What would happen if a tropical storm hit the oil floating in the Gulf? It depends on the storm, and exactly where it meets the oil. Much depends on the angle at which the storm crosses the slick. In the Northern Hemisp...

Artist Erik Guzman has just installed a very coo...  ...hing lights" that is constantly changing based on weather data. As the weather changes, the art responds, changing in its own in...  ...reating neat designs and patterns. But how? This weather data is received via radio w...

On its face, April Fools’ Day seems like a lighthearted opportunity to play practical jokes and pranks on your friends and coworkers, but it’s easy to see the problem with having such a wacky day filled with...

Artist Valerie Lamontagne made dresses that re...  ...t Valerie Lamontagne made dresses that respond to weather data transmitted wirelessly to them. The dresses...

Hair ice, also called silk frost, is a type of ice formation that looks like silk and seems to only appear on woody, barkless materials on the ground. The ice structures tend to grow out of a small pore in the wood,...