It’s been a warm day, maybe even a little humid, and the tall clouds in the distance remind you of cauliflower. You hear a sharp crack, like the sound of a batter hitting a home run, or a low rumble ...

The arrival of summer brings increased chances of thunderstorms and dangerous lightning. NASA marked National Lightning Safety Awareness Week by highlighting the unique contributions agency lightning ...

We've all heard the popular phrase: "Lightning never strikes in the same place twice." But data shows that this isn't entirely accurate. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

When summer monsoons bring thunderstorms to Southwest Colorado, lightning bolts can come fast and furious. Justin Moore, assistant manager of the Durango Interagency Fire Dispatch Center made the ...

It’s been a warm day, maybe even a little humid, and the tall clouds in the distance remind you of cauliflower. You hear a sharp crack, like the sound of a batter hitting a home run, or a low rumble ...

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

Cal Fire said the region experienced 173 lightning strikes within a 24 hour period, five of which were confirmed within the ...

Whenever Florida State University meteorology professor Henry Fuelberg is at home and there’s a thunderstorm, he likes to sit in a rocking chair on his covered front porch, watching the lightning and ...

Seventeen people died in the United States in 2022 as the result of lightning strikes. The deaths of three people in August in a park across from the White House made headline news across the country, ...

Those two fires were among 22 in the TCU September Lightning Complex, in Tuolumne and Calaveras counties. On Wednesday, six of them were 150 acres or larger. Cal Fire put the complex’s combined area ...