You've probably seen lightning flash across the sky, but do you know why and how it happens? This simple science activity ...

A global team of researchers has turned its focus to an earlier detection of lightning strikes which cause devastating ...

Lightning is Incredibly Hot When people think of heat, they often think of things like boiling water or a hot summer's day. However, lightning dwarfs these common perceptions of warmth. A single bolt ...

Lightning generally receives less attention than any other weather hazard. During a thunderstorm, each flash of cloud to ground lightning is a potential killer. However, lightning deaths can be ...

The small Texas town of Teague, about 50 miles east of Waco in Freestone County, was named the nation’s lightning capital in ...

Victoria, Chaska, Waconia and Excelsior fire departments responded to a house fire at 8818 Ridge Ponds Drive in Victoria yesterday. A lightning strike apparently caused the fire, according to ...

An outlook of “scattered (critical) dry thunderstorms” is issued based on a potential fire’s fuel conditions and the presence of scattered-to-numerous cloud-to-ground lightning strikes.

Voltage and Google Cloud are collaborating to offer global Lightning Network solutions, enabling real-time payments with near-zero fees for enterprises. Voltage stated in the announcement that their ...

In its analysis, Vaisala defined "lightning events" as individual pulses within in-cloud flashes as well as individual strokes within cloud-to ground flashes. If Texas doesn't strike you as a very ...