Lightning strikes are always a serious threat, no matter what season it is. For the last year, lightning strikes in the U.S.

Lightning activity poses a significant danger throughout the year, regardless of the season. Over the past 12 months, the ...

Lightning strikes happen when electricity builds up inside storm clouds and between the clouds and the ground. Inside a ...

The age-old maxim says lightning never strikes the same place twice. Florida would beg to disagree.The state is the lightning capital of the United States as measured in deaths by lightning, with four ...

Four people died from lighting strikes in Florida last year, and it also injures many more people than it kills. Here's how ...

Our eyes deceive us when lightning strikes like a giant spark cracking the sky in two. That giant spark is only as big around as a golf ball. Like everything else in nature, it happens for a reason.

Lightning sits at the boundary between routine weather and sudden hazard. It appears briefly, illuminates a landscape, and ...

Oklahoma has officially replaced Florida as the lightning capital of the United States, recording 73 cloud-to-ground ...

Lightning develops within thunderstorms when collisions between ice particles and water droplets separate electrical charges ...

Oklahoma has overtaken Florida in lightning strike density, with Kay County leading the nation, according to a new report by ...

A northern beaches driver has captured the moment lightning struck a utility pole on the side of the Captain Cook Highway, ...