ORLANDO, Fla. – Lightning claims around 20 lives per year in the United States with hundreds more injured. So far this year three lives have been lost due to lightning. One of those lives was Sunday ...

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 ...

Half a million bolts of lightning hit the ground in Colorado each year. And when a thunderstorm is moving through southern Colorado, you'll see the First Alert 5 team showing you those lightning ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) -- With all thunderstorms comes lightning. Of the various types of lightning, one that meteorologists monitor closely is cloud-to-ground lightning. Here’s how it works ...

DALLAS — A lightning strike from East Texas back in October 2017 has been certified as the longest single lightning flash in recorded history. But what are these massive megaflashes that can span ...

Harvard researchers demonstrate how cloud-to-ground lightning strikes could have created the building blocks for life in the young Earth. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

It's safe to say that most of us have seen lightning here on Earth plenty of times – some of us have even been struck by it. But the natural phenomenon is one all but a few select individuals will ...

Parts of this story were originally published in 2018 and 2021. One loud boom of thunder or one bolt of lightning zipping across the sky is enough to send some people running inside for cover, and ...