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

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

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

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 ...

The Sunshine State, which may be just as well-known for its storm activity, is no longer the lightning capital of the U.S., ...

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 ...

At least two people died and about 150 wounded after lightning struck the annual festival in South Africa’s capital Pretoria.