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

The odds of being struck by lightning is less than one in a million in a given year, according to the Centers for Disease ...

This is an incredible picture of a “bolt from the blue” lightning strike from downtown Houston Tuesday. Quentin Dunn sent this to me from his office with downtown in the distance.

Lightning can strike anywhere at any time…On Sunday a large lightning storm went through Augusta, Georgia. Bringing both positive and negative strikes with it. Lightning is a massive electrical ...

According to the National Weather Service, a bolt from the blue is a cloud to ground lightning strike which appears to come out of a clear sky, hence the name.

Northern California has avoided hot weather nearly all of July and that trend will continue for the last weekend of the month ...

A young was struck by lightning during a brutal summer storm at a Sussex County golf tournament on Tuesday, July 8 — and only survived thanks to the quick action of his father and two strangers, a ...

A New Jersey delivery driver had a close call in Wayne last week when a bolt of lightning struck just feet away as he ...

This separation of charge across the cloud leads to a dramatic electrical discharge that manifests as a column of hot ionised gas and electrons, or plasma, reaching for the ground: a lightning strike.