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

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

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

The age-old maxim says lightning never strikes the same place twice. Florida would beg to disagree. The state is the ...

JONESBORO, Ga. - A church in Clayton County burned to the ground after lightning hit it in Sunday night's storms. "Mother Nature is a powerful thing. And lightning strikes, when they do often hit ...

Lightning. It's not a welcomed sight and brings death and destruction wherever it strikes. It comes in second place behind floods with our dangerous weather. But how does this fiery electricity form ...

A typical cloud to ground lightning strike initiates inside the storm. Under the influences of the electric field between the cloud and the ground, a very faint, negatively charged channel called a ...

Lightning is fascinating to watch but also extremely dangerous. In the United States, there are about 25 million lightning flashes every year. Each of those 25 million flashes is a potential killer.

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