Two elk hunters who went missing this month in southern Colorado’s Rio Grande National Forest died from lightning, according ...

Our rainy spring has now stretched deep into July, so it's perhaps no surprise that we're also seeing more noisy, window-rattling thunderstorms accompanied by lightning. Just ask anyone who was at the ...

A Jackson County rancher killed by a lightning strike Saturday is a grave sign that lightning season in Colorado is underway. Mike Morgan, 51, was killed near Rand when lightning struck while he and ...

Many people incorrectly think that heat lightning is a specific type of lightning, NWS said, but it is simply light produced by a distant storm. Usually, mountains, hills, trees or the curvature of ...

Ian Stasko of Utah and Andrew Porter of North Carolina disappeared on September 11 after they “failed to check in with loved ...

Scientists say they’ve finally solved the mystery behind what happens just before lightning strikes. While famous inventor and U.S. Founding Father Benjamin Franklin discovered the connection between ...

Lightning strikes are some of the most awesome demonstrations of power on Earth, and the results can range from mild to destructive.

"Thunder is impressive," Mark Twain wrote, "but it is lightning that does the work." Anyone who's watched a lightning storm will understand what he meant: Lightning is one of nature's most ...

A flash of lightning. A thundering boom. And then a curious light floating through the air, illuminating the dark room, and bouncing off surfaces. “I was so terrified, I hid under my blanket,” says ...

As central Indiana heads into the weekend, drought conditions continue to worsen, raising the risk of brush fires across much ...