COLUMBIA, S.C. — According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), lightning strikes the United States about 25 million times a year. Lightning is most common during the summer, ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — With all thunderstorms comes lightning. Of the various types of lightning, one that meteorologists monitor closely is cloud-to-ground lightning. Here’s how it works: ...

MISSOULA. Mont. — Thunderstorms have been developing each afternoon across western Montana, and some of them produced plenty of lightning. In the video above, Meteorologist Mitchel Coombs breaks down ...

Just beneath the surface of the south Pacific Ocean lies the Hunga volcano. Part of the Tonga archipelago and north of Tonga’s main island Tongatapu, Hunga lies in a very active seismic zone and has ...

The study published last month in the science journal, Nature Physics, explains how ice can produce electricity, similar to ...

For the first time ever, scientists have used lasers to redirect lightning toward a safe target. The experiment, which took place atop Säntis mountain on the northern edge of the Swiss Alps, is the ...

It's not easy to photograph something that's visible for only a few millionths of a second. So, when Arizona photographer Lori Bailey is tracking a lightning storm, she relies on sensors for her ...

In an electrifying discovery, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has certified a new record the the single longest lightning flash. Recently analysis revealed that the ~515 mile flash ...

Lightning is a serious menace to electrical apparatus. Temperamentally it is unsuited to laboratory experimentation. One cannot lasso the lightning and cage it in a condenser for study at leisure. But ...

Some lightning strikes are much more powerful than others and can often be the culprit behind some of Colorado's wildfires. Here's a look at the different types of lightning. 27,981 people played the ...

Lightning has fascinated its observers since the beginning of human history. Those who painted the Lascaux cave walls in France approximately 20,000 years ago are believed to have represented it in ...