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

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

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 ...

"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.

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 ...

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, ...

Lightning strikes Rome's ancient Constantine Arch, sending fragments to the ground The monument was struck by lightning as a storm system rolled through the Italian capital.

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 ...