How Dangerous Lightning Really Is. Lightning is and can be very dangerous. According to the National Weather Service, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The nation matched a grim record for lightning strike deaths in September. Five lightning strike-related fatalities were reported, ...

The skies put on a lightning show for Santa Barbara on Tuesday night with 54 strikes in one hour recorded by the National Weather Service. Credit: Mike Eliason photo Rain and lightning illuminated the ...

Hundreds of lightning bolts stretched across the sky Wednesday night, treating the Bay Area to a rare display of atmospheric electricity. Storms first hit the Central Coast on Tuesday night before ...

Have you ever shuffled through your living room carpet in socks and touched a doorknob to be met with a pop! and a shock? That’s what’s happening in the clouds during a thunderstorm. Our eyes deceive ...

The numbers are out, and Texas once again topped the list for the most lightning strikes out of any state in the United States, according to an annual report from Vaisala Xweather.

If you were up late Tuesday night, chances are you caught that “chaotic” storm that lit up the San Luis Obispo County sky with thunder and lightning for most of the night. According to the National ...

Two schoolgirls and a dog walker have been struck by lightning in Western Australia as fierce thunderstorms rolled over Perth ...

A Texas wind turbine that reportedly caught fire due to a lightning strike sent columns of black smoke rising high into the sky on Saturday4.Footage captured by the Breckenridge Fire ...

Central parts of Queensland, from the Northern Territory border to the coastline, are experiencing a late afternoon sky show ...