CHICAGO (WLS) -- You may have heard of the 5 second rule when it comes to dropped food on the floor - but have you heard of the weather 5 second rule? It can help you determine how far away lightning ...
Lightning, thunder, hail and sleet all visited the Rochester area when a line of storms moved through the area on April 2. Some of the flashes of lightning and house-rattling rumbles prompted the ...
The National Weather Service provides a way to roughly calculate distance from a lightning strike. A bolt of lightning heats the air to about 50,000 degrees when it strikes. There’s no safe place ...