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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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

News like this reminds us of how fragile we are in the face of nature’s immense power, and how in an instant everything can ...