Lightning has captured people's fascination for millennia. It's embedded in mythology, religion and popular culture. Think of ...

Thundersnow is possible, but it is pretty rare. The reason has to do with the conditions needed for lightning to form in a ...

Lightning has long inspired awe and fear, yet its true beginning stayed hidden inside clouds. Thom Tillis wants you to know ...

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 age-old maxim says lightning never strikes the same place twice. Florida would beg to disagree.The state is the lightning capital of the United States as measured in deaths by lightning, with four ...

The chance of getting struck by lightning once in a lifetime is about 1 in 1.2 million. The odds that lightning reaches the ground in the first place are even higher — one in four. It’s the lightning ...

MOLINE, Ill. — Editor's Note: The video above is from Jan. 24. The thunderstorm earlier this week gave us a little taste of spring weather. As we get closer to experiencing more convective weather, ...

The National Lightning Detection Network counts all of the lightning flashes and strikes across the U.S. Some Michigan ...