A research team at Los Alamos National Laboratory recently found that the strength difference between two very high-frequency radio pulses in lightning is closely related to the altitude of the ...

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

Details on the fatal lightning strike at Pasir Ris Beach, its origin from a distant thunderstorm cloud, and weather safety ...

The dance of electrical charges high above us is more complex than most people realize. While we typically think of lightning as bright bolts striking the ground, the vast majority of lightning ...

Singapore logs one of the highest lightning strike rates in the world.On July 5, a man died after he was struck by lightning ...

With upward lightning, it is often triggered by tall objects like wind turbines, skyscrapers or radio towers. These metal objects bring the ground closer to the sky and have an easier time launching ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Massive storm clouds lit up with constant lightning as severe weather swept across parts of Kansas overnight, triggering tornado ...

Lightning can strike some distance from the main thunderstorm cloud even when there are no showers, says the Meteorological ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — This is another great kid question and it has to do with lightning. Emery wants to know, “How does lightning strike between clouds without touching the ground?” We usually ...