Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lightning touched off dozens of fires in Northern California in August. (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) To ...

Tentacles of light flashed across the night sky over the weekend but what causes the spectacular crawler lightning? Jackson Browne, meteorologist at the Bureau of Meteorology, Darwin has shed some ...

Experts say tens of millions of lightning bolts (cloud-to-cloud and ground strikes) every year across Florida.