Churning tornado winds scouring hundreds of miles of tinder-box parched land threatens a near 10-state wildfire inferno.
On Sunday, 114 new fires were started on private and public land most of which were ignited by dry lightning. "Dry lightning is a thunderstorm that produces thunder and lightning and rainfall as ...
Scientists at National Laboratory are studying the origins of lightning. Photo Courtesy LANLLANL NEWS RELEASEResearchers from National Laboratory have discovered that ...
The incidence of such lightning fires has been increasing in ... comparing data from Geoscience Australia on bushfire boundaries and Land Information Services Tasmania on vegetation.
The situation has taken emergency services and land management agencies by surprise ... The number of fires ignited by lightning have increased in Tasmania since the 1990s. When the lightning ...