The dance of electrical charges high above us is more complex than most people realize. While we typically think of lightning ...

The National Lightning Detection Network counted all of the lightning flashes and strikes across our Michigan sky last Thursday and Friday. You won’t believe how many lightning events we had in just ...

When researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory visualized data from the first few nanoseconds of a lightning, they cosmic rays may answer a long debated question about what triggers the ...

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Lightning is a familiar sight in stormy skies, but a new report has revealed just how far some bolts can travel — in one case, more than 500 miles. That astonishing bolt sparked to life in eastern ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Western Oregon was hit with 180 cloud-to-ground lighting strikes and saw 560 cloud-to cloud lightning flashes Monday, according to the National Weather Service. Lightning ...

A cloud resembling a tornado was spotted north of Las Vegas on Friday night, September 5, as a lightning storm rolled through the area, though there is no confirmation that a tornado was forming in ...

DID NOT NEED MEDICAL TREATMENT. STEVEN. WELL, NIKITA, I’M HERE WITH SANDRA IN THE WEATHER CENTER. OBVIOUSLY, IF YOU LIVED IN FLORIDA LONG ENOUGH, YOU KNOW, LIGHTNING IS A REGULAR PART OF LIFE IN THE ...

ATLANTA — Lightning: It's fast, it's ferocious, and it's a common reality of summertime here in the south. In north Georgia, there is a nearly daily pattern of pop-up storms throughout the warmest ...