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SPOKANE, Wash.-- Nighttime thunderstorms rumbled across the Inland Northwest early this week to the delight of many. Spectacular lightning displays came in all sorts of shapes, and all sorts of colors ...

Have you ever noticed the differences in the color of lightning? Colors we see from lighting are caused by many of the same reasons that dictate how the sun appears. The sun, when right on the horizon ...

DURING the brilliant display of lightning on the evening of June 28, I took the opportunity of making some observations of the spectrum. The way in which the spectrum varied was very remarkable, some ...

Lightning comes in every color of the rainbow (Red, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Blue, and Violet, to name a few). It's almost always white, but often it's tinged with another color around the edges. The ...