"Thunder is impressive," Mark Twain wrote, "but it is lightning that does the work." Anyone who's watched a lightning storm will understand what he meant: Lightning is one of nature's most ...

Guinness World Records may be the go-to organization for measuring the extent of (sometimes dubious) human achievement, but for natural phenomena, the World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO’s) ...

Hundreds of lightning strikes sparked across the Bay Area as a low pressure system passed through the region, bringing a ...

The lightning count in San Diego County was 2,861, the National Weather Service (NWS) San Diego posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, Thursday evening. The cloud-to-ground count, which is lightning ...

The unsettled weather that has brought thunder and lightning since late July has generated more than 3,300 lightning strikes in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest — and nearly 32,000 across strikes ...

Lightning strikes south of Badger Mountain on Monday, Sept. 8, 2025, as seen from the parking garage at Kadlec Regional Medical Center in Richland. Courtesy Scott Butner A Richland-based photographer ...

Dry thunderstorms hit California on Tuesday, creating over 10,000 lightning strikes that greatly increased the state's wildfire risk. Dozens of blazes ignited from the storms. In one case, a lightning ...

A home in Brentwood caught on fire early Thursday morning as an overnight lightning storm lit up the Bay Area skies.