Lightning is hotter than the surface of the sun and kills up to 20 people in the United States each year, but how exactly ...

WAVE 3 meteorologist Tawana Andrew breaks down what we know and what we don't about the climate and weather here in ...

According to the National Weather Service, a "bolt from the blue" is a cloud-to-ground lightning strike that appears to come ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - It’s Severe Weather Awareness Week to help us prepare for severe thunderstorms, and Tuesday’s topic is lightning. While lightning is a very interesting phenomenon to ...

Magazine for all ages starting at $25/year. SEE SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS ... • During a thunderstorm, each flash of cloud-to-ground lightning is a potential killer.

But it is “cloud-to-ground” lightning that is the deadliest for obvious reasons. Florida averages more than 3,000 cloud-to-ground strikes per day and over a million flashes per year. Lightning ...

Figure 1 An elevated power line and a lightning strike where the power line is isolated from the wet soil current. Source: John Dunn. Apart from a direct strike to the power line itself (I once saw ...

"Cloud-to-ground lightning could have contributed to additional and plausible sets of starting materials and reaction pathways relevant to the chemical origin of life on Earth," the study added.

A low pressure system will skim the Southern California coast Tuesday through Wednesday, bringing the chance of dry lightning and rip currents.

A Florida teenager who survived a lightning strike is speaking out from his hospital bed. ... I woke up face down on the ground," the 17-year-old ... Experts add that when lightning starts, ...

Sudden storm blew up on Marco Island near the JW Marriott Island Beach Resort then lightning struck a chickee hut with ...

Only about 5 percent of lightning victims are directly struck, Mr. Vagasky said. Others are affected by current traveling through the ground, electricity jumping from an object like a tree or a ...