Lightning can strike victims indoors and outdoors in multiple different ways. Direct strikes are the deadliest, but ground ...

It’s a warm summer evening and you’re enjoying a barbeque with your family and friends. The sunny skies suddenly turn dark as ...

Lightning heats air to 30,000 Kelvin which is hot enough to crack nitrogen apart and send it down in the rain as natural fertilizer. Here's the chemistry.

After a lightning strike killed a mother and her 2-year-old daughter last weekend, we offer tips for staying safe in a severe storm.

The FINANCIAL — Lightning remains one of the deadliest weather hazards in the United States. Although advances in weather forecasting and public education have sharply reduced fatalities over the past ...

A 19-year-old hiker died on Utah's Mount Timpanogos and several others suffered injuries while sheltering from a storm in a mountaintop structure.

Over time, the charge imbalance becomes strong enough to produce lightning. Some of these lightning strikes can ignite new fires beyond the original fire perimeter, making firefighters' jobs even ...

Flying through storms is fraught enough without a lightning strike to worry about I recently joined a tour of Sicily’s Mount Etna that was supposed to include a hike on the Italian volcano’s upper ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Here in Tennessee, we are no strangers to seeing lightning and hearing the thunder caused by it. Lightning strikes the Volunteer State nearly every day in the summer and is ...

(WAVY) — We’ve had some impressive light shows within our thunderstorms recently, as typically, June through August is peak lightning season. That’s also when 70% of lightning strike fatalities occur.

Lightning can turn an ordinary summer storm into a dangerous and destructive event. Several recent incidents around the Bay Area have put that risk in the spotlight.