Scientists are working to understand the curious phenomena of red sprites, green ghosts and blue jets high above ...

While they are referred to as upper atmospheric lightning, the only thing red sprites have in common with the typical form of lightning we see is the movement of electric charge from one part of the ...

Heat and humidity fueled a dazzling lightning show across the Washington and Baltimore region on Wednesday night.

North Carolina averages 3.8 million lightning strikes per year. That's the average - at least - from 2015 to 2019, according ...

Thanks to Harriet Rix and her sublime book, The Genius of Trees, I have seen and relished the world the day before the ...

Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a storm, so if thunder roars, go indoors. If you’re inside, lightning threats are still possible.

Twenty people, including 12 children, were injured by a single lightning strike at a South Carolina park. The lightning struck on a hot, sunny day with a lone passing storm cloud. The National ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – Multiple severe thunderstorms hit KELOLAND on Friday night, and people across South Dakota captured images of the large storm clouds and lightning. East of Vermilli… ...

A Cincinnati man captured a rare and fascinating scene of rainbow lightning on June 18, which was caused by the combination of rain, sunlight, lightning-producing thunderstorms, and the viewer&#821… ...

20 injured in lightning strike at South Carolina beach The lightning struck on what was an otherwise “super hot and sunny” day, though a storm cloud did pass over the area, a Lexington County ...

A 29-year-old Colorado man died Saturday after he was struck by lightning while standing in the ocean under blue skies at New Smyrna Beach in Florida.