About 40 million lightning strikes hit the ground in the U.S. each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Here’s a far fetched notion: for most of human history, humans used to worship gods who fought, fell in love, and even had favorite cities. Zeus might have thrown lightning bolts, but he was not ...

A lightning bolt left a Walpole family stunned and shaken.Brian Trupiano was putting his kids to bed around 8:30 p.m. on<a ...

Every lightning strike begins as a silent exchange of charge — leaders reaching down, streamers rising up — until, in an ...

A bolt of lightning can heat up to 50,000 °F in less than a second, helping to produce a sound we know as thunder. The temperature is around five times hotter than the surface of the Sun.

Lightning-laced micro-storms may fell more rainforest giants than dryness or heat, forcing a rethink of forest-management playbooks.

Florida's geography makes summer one of the more dangerous seasons meteorologically, with spiking daytime temperatures that ...

It sounds like something out of a fantasy film—lightning hits the beach and leaves behind a sculpture made of glass. […] ...