ORLANDO, Fla. – Lightning claims around 20 lives per year in the United States with hundreds more injured. So far this year three lives have been lost due to lightning. One of those lives was Sunday ...

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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: ...

Harvard researchers demonstrate how cloud-to-ground lightning strikes could have created the building blocks for life in the young Earth. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

A storm that pummeled dozens of Midwest states with snow during the weekend also brought another weather phenomena, at least to Missouri: Thunder and lightning. The phenomenon, known as thundersnow, ...

Parts of this story were originally published in 2018 and 2021. One loud boom of thunder or one bolt of lightning zipping across the sky is enough to send some people running inside for cover, and ...