It’s Severe Weather Awareness Week and The Weather Authority wants you to be prepared for when severe weather strikes!

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A tornado warning was issued in several counties, and storms filled the sky with lightning and dark cloud formations ... sent ...

A single lightning strike can release a 30 million-volt surge, enough to severely injure or kill a person in an instant.

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There are research facilities where he could reduce at least some of the variables by deploying the Kahuna on lightning triggered by firing rockets into storm clouds. But Samaras is dismissive of ...

Inside a storm cloud, bits of ice move up and down and ... This is like a shock or a really big spark and is what we call lightning. There are lots of different kinds of lightning.

By Wednesday night, thunderstorms will become increasingly likely, especially after midnight. This round of thunderstorms ...

The clouds at the high levels of the thunderstorm ... Being outdoors is the most dangerous place to be during a lightning storm. The National Weather Service advises that when you hear thunder ...

The more violently wind shear destabilises a storm system, the more lightning is unleashed, as differences between positively and negatively charged regions of a cloud grow more dramatic.