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

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 ...

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

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.

ANGLER Steve Barrett survived a terrifying lightning strike — on Friday the 13th. The 54-year-old was left with a hole in his ...

According to the National Weather Service, a bolt from the blue is a cloud to ground lightning strike which appears to come ...

Did you know? Energy from a lightning channel heats the air briefly to around 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit, much hotter than the ...

Flashes of light can be seen going off from above homes before a huge bolt of lightning shoots through the sky.

Colorado man celebrating honeymoon dies after lightning strike at New Smyrna Beach Florida while standing in ankle-deep water ...

Warnings for golfers to get off the course when storms approach are protocol for a reason: On Wednesday, June 11, a lightning bolt struck a northern Michigan golf course leaving a vivid reminder of ...

But the peculiar nature of lightning on tidally locked planets poses some challenges for their ability to host life. A typical lightning bolt can reach temperatures of up to 30,000 kelvins (over ...