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

This is an incredible picture of a “bolt from the blue” lightning strike from downtown Houston Tuesday. Quentin Dunn sent this to me from his office with downtown in the distance.

Thankfully, there were no fatalities, but 12 children and eight adults were electrocuted by the lightning strike at a public ...

It’s the last day of June and I’m standing under the overhang on my back deck protected from the last drips of a rainstorm.

A company is creating its own lightning bolts to test equipment efficiency as strikes become more common due to climate ...

No injuries were reported after an intense night of stormy weather unfolded in central Alberta on Wednesday night, but once ...

An Alberta couple, Ed and Melinda Pardy, possibly recorded rare ball lightning. This happened after a thunderstorm near their ...

Ben and Rae Blackhawk went to Anoka High School Thursday night for an early Fourth of July fireworks show. Thanks to Mother ...

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

This chart by the European Space Agency does a great job of showing the difference between the two phenomena, but because they’re both the products of lightning firing upwards, they’re still ...

• The odds of becoming a lightning victim in the U.S. in any one year is 1 in 700,000. The odds of being struck in your lifetime is 1 in 3,000. • Lightning can kill people (3,696 deaths were ...

A bolt of lightning nearly struck Lodi Pizza on the afternoon of June 19, ... “We heard a big boom and saw a bright blue light,” Scaturro said. “People ran — it was pretty scary. ...