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 ...

What determines the different colors of lightning? I always made the assumption it had something to do with the different elements present in the path of the lightning bolt itself. — William C. Clancy ...

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 ...