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 ...

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.

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

About 10 percent of lightning-stroke victims are killed, and 70 percent suffer serious long-term effects. About 400 people survive lightning strokes in the U.S. each year.

A typical lightning bolt can reach temperatures of up to 30,000 kelvins (over 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit).

The program, called ALOFT (Airborne Lightning Observatory for Fly’s Eye Geostationary Lightning Mapper Simulator and Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes), constitutes the most comprehensive and ...

In a jaw-dropping dashcam moment from August 3, a lightning bolt zapped the road, barely missing two cars in Calgary, Canada. The electrifying strike lit up the highway, leaving the drivers ...

Why do the same, self-repeating patterns appear in trees, rivers, lightning, and even our bodies?