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.

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 ...

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

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, ...

"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.

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.

For this contest against the Maple Leafs, Lightning goaltender Jonas Johansson is expected to be the club's starting goalie. Johansson's last start occurred against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Jan. 12.

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 ...