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

Day after day of storms soaked Florida from Sept. 7-12, leading to flash flooding, vivid lightning strikes and dramatic shelf clouds.

A bolt of lightning struck a tree in Wisconsin, exploding bark and igniting flames. Neighbors rushed in with buckets of water ...

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

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 ...

While the Summer is drawing to a close it's still important to be aware of the dangers of wildfires in California.

The drier the storm and the drier the vegetation, the more likely lightning strikes are to spark wildfires, according to the ...

Lightning struck a pickup at Fort Custer, near Battle Creek, on July 24, causing the vehicle to burn, but the driver was uninjured, Ross-Augusta Fire Department officials said in a post on Facebook.

Guinness World Records may be the go-to organization for measuring the extent of (sometimes dubious) human achievement, but for natural phenomena, the World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO’s) ...

The French Aerospace Lab estimates on average that each aircraft in the U.S. commercial fleet is struck by lightning every ...

A massive bolt of lightning that lit up the sky from Dallas to Kansas City, Mo., in October 2017 is officially the longest single flash ever recorded. A reanalysis of satellite data collected during ...

ST. CLOUD, Fla. — Lightning is believed to be the cause of a large apartment fire in St. Cloud. The fire broke out around 1:30 p.m. Monday at an apartment building in St. Cloud Village. The St. Cloud ...