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

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

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

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.

As summer begins and more people spend time outdoors, Floridians know that it’s likely to storm each afternoon from June to ...

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

• 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 ...

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 ...

A bolt of lightning nearly struck Lodi Pizza on the afternoon of June 19, damaging concrete in the restaurant’s parking lot.