While reporting during an active storm, meteorologist Tony Laubach is caught off guard when a powerful lightning bolt strikes dangerously close by in Gardner, Illinois on March 10. Republicans face a ...

Scientists have successfully modeled large lightning strikes that occur on a kilometer scale in a lab setting of only a few centimeters ...

Why Lightning Happens — And Why It’s So Dangerous. Meteorologist Matt Bullock explains.

Lightning can strike up to 25 miles away from a storm and reach temperatures five times hotter than the sun. Meteorologist ...

The Tampa Bay Lightning cannot be stopped. Many have tried over the past several weeks, but all have failed — miserably. And if things continue on the current trajectory, nobody quite knows for sure ...

Early morning lightning strikes on Tuesday led to two schools in Santa Rosa closing down for the day, including at one site where lightning obliterated a large tree. The Woodside West School, a ...