The National Lightning Detection Network counts all of the lightning flashes and strikes across the U.S. Some Michigan ...

More numbers from 2025 in the world of weather are in the books. Meteorologist Adam Rutt takes a look. Though severe weather season is still several months away, we can look back at what we saw last ...

For as long as people have watched storms roll across the sky, lightning has inspired awe and fear. You can see the flash and ...

Lightning strikes happen when electricity builds up inside storm clouds and between the clouds and the ground. Inside a thunderstorm, tiny ice particles and small hailstones bump into each other as ...

Lightning strikes happen when electricity builds up inside storm clouds and between the clouds and the ground. Inside a thunderstorm, tiny ice particles and small hailstones bump into each other as ...

A small Oklahoma town overtook a tiny Texas community in 2025 as the U.S. lightning capital, where lightning density counts ...

Lightning strikes in India have become an increasingly deadly disaster, with a massive surge in deaths linked to localised ...

Lightning researchers expect lightning could become more frequent as temperatures rise. Photo by Rick Lipscomb, courtesy NOAA. The age-old maxim says lightning never strikes the same place twice.

Lightning strikes are always a serious threat, no matter what season it is. For the last year, lightning strikes in the US ...

Florida was not the lightning capital of the U.S. in 2025, according to report by AEM. Researchers found Oklahoma led the country in lightning flash density.

Students in Environmental Journalism class at the UF College of Journalism and Communications spent their semester reporting on the science, risks and human stories of lightning across Florida, the ...

Almost 1000 lightning strikes hit the Bay of Plenty last night, with the “amazing” electrical storm captured on video lighting up Tauranga and Rotorua skies. Rotorua resident Joshua Dahya was at home ...