Did you see a flash of lightning? Start counting, because that can tell you how far away the thunderstorm is, and if it's ...

Though scientists have long understood how lightning strikes, the precise atmospheric events that trigger it within ...

The odds of being struck by lightning in any given year in the U.S., based on reported deaths and injuries, is 1 in 750,000, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Taylor Sturgill recalled. According to police, the lightning didn't hit the women directly, but traveled through the sand after first striking a wooden, thatched cabana structure.

Northern California has avoided hot weather nearly all of July and that trend will continue for the last weekend of the month ...

A lightning strike split into two arcs, fated to meet. One arc, called a leader, struck downwards towards a tower, while the other leader rose up to meet it from the tip of the structure.

At one point, the team detected a downward-advancing lightning leader, a channel where the air was breaking down into charged particles. A leader forms just before a lightning bolt zips through ...

The “superbolt” was 228,000 amps and struck southeast Tulsa at 10:10 p.m. Sunday, May 25, according to the Weather.us lightning tracker, which categorized the bolt as a “wild house shaker.” ...

Florida is the lightning capital of the U.S., the CDC reports. "So it's a challenge that we have to deal with every single day," said Jack Eble, spokesperson for Florida Power and Light.