IN order to explain the curious behaviour of lightning flashes the possibility should be kept in mind of a connexion between a lightning discharge and the cosmic rays. When penetrating particles ...

Shortly after 8pm, a number of lightning strikes dazzled the district ... Many of our readers were wowed by the sight and submitted some amazing pictures of the bolts via the Telegraph & Argus ...

Despite hundreds more sightings since then, scientists have struggled to explain the exact nature of ball lightning, leading some to question whether it is real, an optical illusion, or even a ...