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 ...

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 ...

The odds of lightning hitting your house are 1 in 200 according to the National Lightning Safety Council. The odds of it starting a fire are even less. But for one house in Antioch, luck was not ...

Such lightning is a phenomenon known as a “bolt from the blue” and “starts inside a cloud, goes out the side of the storm, then travels horizontally away from the cloud before going to ...

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 ...