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

Earlier this week, several homes across Central Florida were damaged or destroyed by lightning-sparked fires. Here's what we ...

Lightning is hotter than the surface of the sun and kills up to 20 people in the United States each year, but how exactly ...

This is National Lightning Safety Awareness Week. As summertime showers and thunderstorms impact the area, this is a good ...

Strange lightning-strike rashes? Exploding trees? A lake that's a lightning magnet? These lightning facts will, well, shock ...

Scientists are working to understand the curious phenomena of red sprites, green ghosts and blue jets high above ...

Getting inside a sturdy structure or at least an automobile is the best move when thunder roars, but just not being in water or being the tallest object around is a good start.

Startled 911 callers alerted police and medics to a lightning strike at the Northland High School field, describing how the ...