With summer approaching, the threat of thunderstorms is becoming more likely.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — With all thunderstorms comes lightning. Of the various types of lightning, one that ...

FOX Weather Meteorologist Ari Sarsalari and producer Christopher Scragg analyze an amazing lightning-producing supercell ...

BIG COUNTRY, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) – On the evening of April 1, 2026, a line of storms moved through Abilene, bringing damaging wind gusts, large hail, a couple of tornado warnings, and plenty of ...

Pendleton saw 3,728 ground lightning strikes during the event.

Inside a thunderstorm, warm air is forced upward in a strong updraft. As the air rises, ice and water particles collide inside the cloud, creating electrical charges. Those collisions build up ...

Lightning strikes caused dozens of outages across Oahu following a sudden turn in weather. On May 16, Hawaiian Electric said ...

Each year in the United States, lightning strikes an average of 300 people. A direct hit by a bolt of lightning kills about 50 people per year. Those who survive a lightning strike – with temperatures ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. As the weather warms, people spend more time outdoors, going to barbecues, ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. — With all thunderstorms comes lightning. Of the various types of lightning, one that meteorologists monitor closely is cloud-to-ground lightning. Here’s how it works: as a ...