The chance of getting struck by lightning once in a lifetime is about 1 in 1.2 million. The odds that lightning reaches the ground in the first place are even higher — one in four. It’s the lightning ...

A report was issued from the NWS Hanford CA on Tuesday at 4:16 p.m. for strong thunderstorms until 4:45 p.m. for Los Banos - ...

A research team at Los Alamos National Laboratory recently found that the strength difference between two very high-frequency radio pulses in lightning is closely related to the altitude of the ...

Small, frequent lightning storms zip across Jupiter’s cloud tops. NASA’s Juno spacecraft spotted the flashes for the first time, scientists report August 5 in Nature. “It’s a very exotic thing that ...

Lightning is a familiar sight in stormy skies, but a new report has revealed just how far some bolts can travel — in one case, more than 500 miles. That astonishing bolt sparked to life in eastern ...

A wild mix of weather swept the Central Coast Monday, delivering heavy rain, flooding, lightning, hail—and two funnel clouds ...

Central Florida is one of the most lightning-prone zones in the world. — -- While Red Bull athletes are known for pushing the limits, this may have been Sean MacCormac’s most extreme mission yet ...