As spring approaches, we can expect more severe storms, which can bring deadly lightning strikes. While summer is the busiest ...

“The shift signals a broader surge in lightning activity across the Great Plains,” environmental consulting firm AEM said in a statement There are a number of reasons for the shift, including the fact ...

Lightning researchers expect lightning could become more frequent as temperatures rise. Photo by Rick Lipscomb, courtesy NOAA. The age-old maxim says lightning never strikes the same place twice.

Florida has long been regarded as the lightning capital of the United States – but it may have competition. A new report by environmental consulting firm AEM found that Oklahoma was the nation’s ...

Lightning can strike up to 25 miles from a storm. Safety experts say seek shelter indoors or in a vehicle as soon as thunder is heard.

Lightning sparked almost 60% of the wildfires—and those blazes accounted for 93% of the total area burned.

Early morning lightning strikes on Tuesday led to two schools in Santa Rosa closing down for the day, including at one site where lightning obliterated a large tree. The Woodside West School, a ...

The weather phenomenon — which also killed a dog — occurred in the Australian city of Perth on Thursday, Feb. 26, and also injured the teen's friend and a 78-year-old man ...

(KRON) — A bolt of lightning struck a beloved redwood tree next to a Santa Rosa preschool Tuesday while thunderstorms rolled through the region. Lightning ripped through the large tree’s trunk before ...

A delivery driver in New Jersey narrowly avoided contact with a whopping dose of nature's electricity. The man, who appears to work for a food delivery service, was almost struck by a lightning bolt ...